num_pages: 149
description: Unique and exciting this ethnographic study is the first to address a little-known subculture which holds a fascination for many. The first decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever increasing fixation with vampires from the recent spate of phenomenally successful books films and television programmes to the return of vampire-like style on the catwalk. Amidst this hype there exists a small dedicated community that has been celebrating their interest in the vampire since the early 1990s. The London vampire subculture is an alternative lifestyle community of people from all walks of life and all ages from train drivers to university lecturers who organise events such as fang fittings gothic belly dancing late night graveyard walks and 'carve your own tombstone'.Mellins presents an extraordinary account of this fascinating subculture which is largely unknown to most people. Through case study analysis of the female participants Vampire Culture investigates women's longstanding love affair with the undead and asks how this fascination impacts on their lives from fiction to fashion. Vampire Culture includes photography from community member and professional photographer SoulStealer and is an essential read for students and scholars of gender film television media fashion culture sociology and research methods as well as anyone with an interest in vampires style subcultures and the gothic.
language: English
title: Vampire Culture
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic