The monster hunter in modern popular culture
By: Heather L. Duda.
Publisher: McFarland; McFarland & Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780786434060
Subjects: Heroes in mass media; Monsters in mass media
Description: "This book examines the evolution of the contemporary monster hunter from Bram Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing to today's non-traditional monster hunters such as Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Watchmen. This examination reveals how the monster hunter began as a white, upper-class, educated male and became everything from a vampire to a teenage girl with supernatural powers"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A history of the monster hunter; title: Humanity and the contemporary vampire; title: Vigilantism and the graphic novel's monster hunters; title: The advent of the female monster hunter; title: Monster hunters for the new millennium.