Mcfarland & Co Inc - Vampire Films Around The World Essays On The Cinematic Undead Of Sixteen Cultures - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate feared yet fascinating dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that combined with motion picture filmmaking reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents including the films Let the Right One In What We Do in the Shadows Cronos and We Are the Night among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland Germany Sweden and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico Canada and the US a. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier Morocco and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea China and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender post - colonialism camp and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.
Title: Vampire Films Around The World Essays On The Cinematic Undead Of Sixteen Cultures
Brand: Mcfarland & Co Inc
Barcode: 9781476676739
Pages: 330 Pages, 37 Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Publication Date: 10/23/2020
Category: Film: Styles & Genres