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Vampires

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Author : David J. Skal
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781579124755
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Vampires written by David J. Skal and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most wide-ranging collection of vampire tales ever features two centuries of spine-tingling writing, from John Polidori to Robert Block, Alexis Tolstoy to Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Henry Kuttner. Every page of Vampires features a column of commentary by the editor, expanding upon the stories and exploring the evolution of the vampire mystique in folklore, literature, and popular culture. More than 200 beautifully rendered black-and-white images of vintage engravings, film posters, and popular artifacts make this big book the “living end” of vampire fact, fiction, and lore.

Vampire

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Author : Manuela Dunn Mascetti
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampire written by Manuela Dunn Mascetti and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic and exquisitely eerie guide is as elegant and menacing as the creature it describes. With nearly 200 photographs and illustrations, this entertaining and erudite collection of myth, folklore, literature and popular culture is seductively priced in its new paperback edition.

(Vampires)

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Author : Jalal Toufic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book (Vampires) written by Jalal Toufic and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vampire Book

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Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578593506
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Book written by J Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

Vampires

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Author : Jean Marigny
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500300411
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Vampires written by Jean Marigny and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nightmare of the dead rising from their graves and sucking the blood of the living has haunted us since prehistory. Legends, literature and terrifying case histories trace the survival of vampires from antiquity to the gaslit streets of London. From age to age, the same terrifying myth has adapted itself to the beliefs of the time. Today it is kept alive through fiction and the cinema, which have distilled our worst fears and most secret desires. The world of the undead lives on.

Economics of the Undead

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Author : Glen Whitman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442235039
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Economics of the Undead written by Glen Whitman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether preparing us for economic recovery after the zombie apocalypse, analyzing vampire investment strategies, or illuminating the market forces that affect vampire-human romances, Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science gives both seasoned economists and layman readers something to sink their teeth into. Undead characters have terrified popular audiences for centuries, but when analyzed closely, their behaviors and stories—however farfetched—mirror our own in surprising ways. The essays collected in this book are as humorous as they are thoughtful, as culturally relevant as they are economically sound, and provide an accessible link between a popular culture phenomenon and the key concepts necessary to building one’s understanding of economic systems big and small. It is the first book to apply and combine economics and our society’s fascination with the undead, and is an invaluable resource for those looking to learn economic fundamentals in a fun and innovative way. Contributions by: Kyle William Bishop, Eleanor Brown, Ian Chadd, Darwynn Deyo, Steven Horwitz, Daniel Farhat, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Enrique Guerra-Pujol, Brian Hollar, Sebastien Lecou, Joseph Mandarino, Alain Marciano, Fabien Medvecky, David T. Mitchell, Michael O’Hara, M. Christine Phillips, A. Lynn Phillips, G. Michael Phillips, Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Robert Prga, Hollis Robbins, Sarah Skwire, Ilya Somin, David Tufte, Mary Jo Tufte, and Charlotte Weil

Undead in the West

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Author : Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081088545X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Undead in the West written by Cynthia J. Miller and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre’s inner plagues and demons visible, and lay siege to a frontier tied to myths of strength, ingenuity, freedom, and independence. The volume is divided into three sections: “Reanimating Classic Western Tropes” examines traditional Western characters, symbolism, and plot devices and how they are given new life in undead Westerns; “The Moral Order Under Siege” explores the ways in which the undead confront classic values and morality tales embodied in Western films; and “And Hell Followed with Him” looks at justice, retribution, and retaliation at the hands of undead angels and avenger. The subjects explored here run the gamut from such B films as Curse of the Undead and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula to A-list features like From Dusk ‘til Dawn and Jonah Hex, as well as animated films (Rango) and television programs (The Walking Dead and Supernatural). Other films discussed include Sam Raimi’s Bubba Ho-Tep, John Carpenter’s Vampires, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, andSergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West. Featuring several illustrations and a filmography, Undead in the West will appeal to film scholars, especially those interested in hybrid genres, as well as fans of the Western and the supernatural in cinema.

Open graves, open minds

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Author : Sam George
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526102161
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Open graves, open minds written by Sam George and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla. Further essays discuss the Undead in the context of Dracula, fin-de-siècle decadence, Nazi Germany and early cinematic treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from Coppola's film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. More recent manifestations in novels, TV, Goth subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in discussions of True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and much more. Featuring distinguished contributors, including a prominent novelist, and aimed at interdisciplinary scholars or postgraduate students, it will also appeal to aficionados of creative writing and Undead enthusiasts. www.opengravesopenminds.com

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms

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Author : John Edgar Browning
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869233
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms written by John Edgar Browning and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Dracula in 1897, Bram Stoker's original creation has been a source of inspiration for artists, writers, and filmmakers. From Universal's early black-and-white films and Hammer's Technicolor representations that followed, iterations of Dracula have been cemented in mainstream cinema. This anthology investigates and explores the far larger body of work coming from sources beyond mainstream cinema reinventing Dracula. Draculas, Vampires and Other Undead Forms assembles provocative essays that examine Dracula films and their movement across borders of nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and genre since the 1920s. The essays analyze the complexity Dracula embodies outside the conventional landscape of films with which the vampire is typically associated. Focusing on Dracula and Dracula-type characters in film, anime, and literature from predominantly non-Anglo markets, this anthology offers unique perspectives that seek to ground depictions and experiences of Dracula within a larger political, historical, and cultural framework.

A History of the Undead

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Author : Charlotte Booth
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526769077
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Undead written by Charlotte Booth and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Western culture’s fascination with undead creatures in film and television. Are you a fan of the undead? Watch lots of mummy, zombie and vampire movies and TV shows? Have you ever wondered if they could be “real?” This book, A History of the Undead, unravels the truth behind these popular reanimated corpses. Starting with the common representations in Western media through the decades, we go back in time to find the origins of the myths. Using a combination of folklore, religion and archaeological studies we find out the reality behind the walking dead. You may be surprised at what you find . . .

Vampires and the Undead

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Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1615318992
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Vampires and the Undead written by Anita Ganeri and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires have haunted our literature and mythology long before Twilight. This book explains the history of vampires, zombies, and other frightening undead creatures from around the world. Young readers will be fascinated by the fact-filled text and thrilled by the exciting illustrations.

Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy

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Author : Richard Greene
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812696832
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy written by Richard Greene and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of philosophical essays about the undead: beings such as vampires and zombies who are physically or mentally dead yet not at rest. Topics addressed include the metaphysics and ethics of undeath"--Provided by publisher.

Undead Apocalyse

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Author : Stacey Abbott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748694927
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Undead Apocalyse written by Stacey Abbott and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the intersection of the vampire and zombie with 21st Century dystopian and post-apocalyptic cinemaTwenty-first century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositional: one alluring, the other repellant; one seductive, the other infectious. With case studies of films like I Am Legend and 28 Days Later, as well as TV programmes like Angel and The Walking Dead, this book challenges these popular assumptions and reveals the increasing interconnection of undead genres. Exploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease and apocalypse, while the zombie text has increasingly been influenced by the trope of the areluctant vampire, Stacey Abbott shows how both archetypes are actually two sides of the same undead coin. When considered together they present a dystopian, sometimes apocalyptic, vision of twenty-first century existence.Key featuresRather than seeing them as separate or oppositional, this book explores the intersection and dialogue between the vampire and zombie across film and televisionMuch contemporary scholarship on the vampire focuses on Dark Romance, while this book explores the more horror-based end of the genreOffers a detailed discussion of the development of zombie televisionProvides a detailed examination of Richard Mathesons I Am Legend, including the novel, the script, the adaptations and the BBFCs response to Mathesons script

Screening the Undead

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Author : Leon Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735438
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Screening the Undead written by Leon Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely outsider. The zombie can shamble or, nowadays, sprint with alarming velocity, and even dance. It frequently lends itself to metaphor and can stand in for fascism or ecological disaster, but is perhaps most frequently a harbinger and instrument of the apocalypse. Leading writers on Horror and cult media consider the sexy vampire and the grotesque zombie, as well as hybrid figures who do not fit neatly into either category. These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies. Screening the Undead sheds new light on these two icons of terror - and desire - whose popular longevity has taken them 'Beyond Life'.

The Global Vampire

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Author : Cait Coker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637334
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Global Vampire written by Cait Coker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.

Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead Things

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Author : Margie Fuston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534474579
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead Things written by Margie Fuston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As her father lies gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, eighteen-year-old Victoria's last hope is to find a vampire in New Orleans, an impossible mission that rekindles a special friendship.

Vampires and Zombies

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Author : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496813244
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Vampires and Zombies written by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that hunt down what happens when the undead go global