The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World

Bys: Donald E. Palumbo and C. W. Sullivan III

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476675945
• ISBN13: 9781476675947
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher