Vampires race and transnational Hollywoods Introduction: migrations and mutations Blood bodies and borders Making Americans from foreigners Classical Hollywood vampires: the unnatural whiteness of America International Hollywood vampires: cosmopolitanisms of foreign movies Vampires of color: a critique of multicultural whiteness Terrorist vampires: religious heritage or planetary advocacy Other vampires other Hollywoods: serialized citizenship and narrowcast difference Conclusion: history and Hollywood mashed up Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywoods vampires between low budget quickies and high budget franchises as it appropriates visual styles from German Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off shores to Canada Philippines and South Africa. As the vampires popularity has swelled vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity not always addressed in realist modes. Here teen vampires comfort misunderstood youth chador wearing skateboarder vampires promote transnational feminism African American and Mexican American vampires recover their repressed histories. Looking at contemporary hits like True Blood Twilight Underworld and The Strain classics such as Universals Dracula and Dracula and miscegenation melodramas like The Cheat and The Sheik the book reconfigures Hollywood historiography and tradition as fundamentally transnational offering fresh interpretations of vampire media as trans genre sites for political contestation