Loving Vampires : Our Undead Obsession
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| Title: | Loving Vampires : Our Undead Obsession |
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| Description: | Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class--and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power. The author discusses three real-life role models for vampire characters. |
| Authors: | Tom Pollard |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Vampires in popular culture, Vampires |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class--and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power. The author discusses three real-life role models for vampire characters. |
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| ISBN: | 9780786497782 9781476624303 |
