Reading vampire gothic through blood
Subtitle: bloodlines
By: Aspasia Stephanou,  independent scholar, Cyprus
Series: The Palgrave Gothic Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781137349224
Subjects: Vampires in mass media; Blood; Symbolic aspects; Social aspects; Folklore; Human body in mass media; Blood in literature; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: "Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the promiscuous circulations of blood in science and philosophy, vampire novels, films and vampire communities to draw a vascular map of the symbolic meanings of blood and its association with questions of identity and the body. Stephanou seeks to explain present-day biotechnologies, global neoliberal biopolitics and capitalism, feminine disease and monstrosity, race, and vampirism by looking to the past and analysing how blood was constituted historically. By tracing the transformations of blood symbols and metaphors, as they bleed from early modernity into the complex arterial networks of global and corporate culture, it is possible to open new veins of signification in the otherwise exhausted and dry landscape of vampire scholarship"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-221) and index.