Open graves, open minds : representations of vampires and the undead from the Enlightenment to the present day /
George, Sam,Dr.
Hughes, Bill.
Manchester : Manchester University Press
2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Sam George and Bill Hughes -- 2. The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero : Polidori and the literary vampire / Conrad Aquilina -- 3. Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires and Ireland's invited invasion / Julieann Ulin -- 4. 'He make in the mirror no reflect': undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction : Dorian Gray, Dracula and David Reed's 'vampire painting' / Sam George -- 5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers's Vampir / Lisa Lampert-Weissig -- 6. The undead in the kingdom of the shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire / Stacey Abbott -- 7. Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the 'new vampire' film / Lindsey Scott.
8. 'I feel strong. I feel different': transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Malgorzata Drewniok -- 9. Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle / Catherine Spooner -- 10. A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and The Twilight Saga / Jennifer H. Williams -- 11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body / Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt -- 12. The postmodern vampire in 'post-race' America: HBO's True Blood / Michelle J. Smith -- 13. Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman -- 14. The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface / Ivan Phillips -- 15. 'Legally recognised undead': essence, difference and assimilation in Daniel Waters's Generation Dead / Bill Hughes -- 16. The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction : writing My Swordhand is Singing / Marcus Sedgwick.
Vampires in literature.
Vampires on television.
Vampire films