The lure of the vampire
Subtitle: gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy
By: Milly Williamson.
Publisher: Wallflower
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Vampire films -- History and criticism; Vampires in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and the Dracula : what's at stake?; title: Vampire transformations : gothic melodrama, sympathy and the self; title: Fans re-reading the vampire : issues of gender and the pleasures of pathos; title: The predicament of the vampire and the slayer : gothic melodrama in modern America; title: Vampire fandom : rebels without a cause? : theorising fandom in the field of cultural production; title: Vampire fandom in the field of cultural production : a vampire fan club case study; title: Donning fangs : gender, the vampire and dressing the self; title: Rewriting the vampire : gender, sexuality and fan fiction; title: Conclusion, the vampire and the self : the dilemmas of the dead and the realm of the possible.