Postmodern Vampires Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire’s point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular
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POSTMODERN VAMPIRES FILM, FICTION, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Postmodern Vampires
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Postmodern Vampires Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Department of English Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, UK
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For Léin Ní Longáin, now and forever.
Acknowledgements
No book is a solo endeavour; it takes years of support and encouragement to get through those dark nights of the soul, especially when your waking thoughts are consumed with the murmur of vampires. There are numerous scholars to whom this study is indebted, from the vampire’s folkloric origins to contemporary film and television, but in particular the pioneering works of Nina Auerbach, Stacey Abbott, Harry M. Benshoff, David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Ken Gelder, among other important critics, whose contributions to vampire studies have certainly informed in this book. I also wish to thank colleagues at Palgrave Macmillan for their support and patience, and my sincere thanks to the peer reviewers and endorsers for their time and support. Academia also has a strange link to personal biography: when I was 14, following on from a recommendation to read Anne Rice by my cool
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