The Symbolic Potential of the Hybrid: Anita Blake and Horror and Vampire Literature, Virginia Fusco

Автор: Bacon Simon
Название: The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead
ISBN: 1476675740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476675749
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. These essays investigate the consequences of immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is so well suited to life in the 21st century.

Автор: Bacon Simon
Название: Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker`s Vampire on Screen
ISBN: 1476675384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476675381
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker`s Dracula is often read as Victorian society`s absolute Other - an outsider representative of the fears and anxieties of the age. This book is a study of Dracula`s role of absolute Other as it appears on screen, and an investigation of popular culture`s continued fascination with vampires.

Автор: Anita Spring
Название: Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles
ISBN: 1468424025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781468424027
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume of essays grew out of a symposium organized by Judith Hoch-Smith and Anita Spring for the 1974 American Anthropological Association meetings in Mexico City. The two-part symposium was enti- tled Women in Ritual and Symbolic Systems: I. Midwives, Madonnas, and Mediums; ll. Prostitutes, Witches, and Androgynes. The sym- posium participants were asked to explore theological, ritual, and sym- bolic aspects-both positive and negative-of the feminine cultural do- main, using ethnographic materials with which they were familiar. The resulting papers have been revised, edited, and gathered together in Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles. The theoretical importance of these papers for the study of women's participation in culture and society rests on the assumption that reli- gious ideas are paramount forces in social life, that relationships be- tween the sexes, the nature of female sexuality, and the social and cul- tural roles of women are in large part defined by religious ideas. That this proposition remains valid long after religion itself has ceased to be a living truth in the lives of many people can be seen from the tenacious- ness of Judeo-Christian ideas about women in the contemporary West- ern world. Both the expansion of life options for women and the creation of more positive cultural images of the female are intimately related to changes in the my tho-symbolic portraits that people carry around in their heads. These portraits are almost exclusively constructed from mythological and religious conceptions inherent in all facets of culture.

Автор: Bacon, Simon
Название: Becoming vampire
ISBN: 3034319908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034319904
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity positions. Whilst focusing on the films Let Me In and Let the Right One In to highlight the referential and intertextual nature of the genre itself, it utilises a broad spectrum of methodological approaches to show how the many facets of the vampire can destabilise traditional categories of who we are and what we might become. This volume then provides a timely examination of the multifaceted and multivalent character of the vampire and the possibilities inherent within our interactions with them, making this study a consideration of what we might term ‘vampiric becomings’ and an exploration of why the undead ‘creatures of the night’ remain so fascinating to Western culture.