Author: Margot Adler
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1609259521
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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The author of Drawing Down the Moon offers a "literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating” exploration of the enduring allure of vampires (Whitley Strieber, author of The Hunger). Author and NPR correspondent Margot Adler found herself newly drawn to vampire novels while sitting vigil at her dying husband’s bedside. Intrigued by the way this ever-evolving myth lets us contemplate mortality, she embarked on a years-long journey of reading hundreds vampire novels—from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic. She began to see just how each era creates the vampires it needs. Dracula, an Eastern European monster, was the perfect vehicle for 19th-century England’s fear of outsiders and of disease seeping in through its large ports. In 1960s America, the television show Dark Shadows gave us the morally conflicted vampire struggling against his own predatory nature, who still enthralls us today. From Bram Stoker to Ann Rice; from vampire detective thrillers to lesbian vampire fiction; and from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Twilight and True Blood, Vampires Are Us explores the issues of power, politics, morality, identity, and even the fate of the planet that show up in vampire novels today. Perhaps, Adler suggests, our blood is oil, perhaps our prey is the planet. Perhaps vampires are us.
Author: William Patrick Day
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813153948
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories—from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films to Love at First Bite—have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.
Author: Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Publisher: Visionary Living, Inc.
ISBN: 1942157908
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Lara Biyuts
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300796065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Author: Andie M. Long
Publisher: Andie M. Long
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author Andie M. Long brings you a steamy complete duo of paranormal romance in this why choose, reverse harem (RH) boxset. One journalist looking for secrets of the filthy rich. Four vampires looking for a mate to share. FILTHY RICH PLAYERS Carter, Flynn, Smith, and Jayden are sons of the Billionaire elite of Carbon Beach. All play and no work, their reputation of treating women badly lands on gossip columnist Serena Saxton’s desk. Eager for an expose that will whisk her away from her mediocre Manhattan house-share, she jumps at the chance to travel to Malibu and unearth the secrets of the infamous players. But their darkest secret is one she couldn't have foreseen – they're vampires, looking for one woman to love and to share, and they think Serena might be the one… FILTHY RICH HUSBANDS Finally, they've found the woman of their dreams… and they want her to be their wife. Carter, Flynn, Smith, and Jayden, are now living with, and loved-up with, Serena… but is it all about to turn into a nightmare? After unearthing a secret about her past, Serena feels she needs to focus on that before thinking about the future. Not to mention, Smith needs to deal with his demons, and they aren't all in his mind. Carter's and Flynn's careers begin to soar, and Jayden's ex returns to Carbon Beach. Can they move forward together when life is pulling them apart? This steamy omnibus has high heat and high drama - well, they are vampires after all! KEYWORDS: vampire reverse harem, vampire why choose, vampire paranormal romance, vampire romance, reverse harem paranormal, why choose, RH romance, RH, reverse harem series, dark romance, complete reverse harem series, erotic romance, erotic vampire romance, vampire romance books, paranormal romance books, complete paranormal RH romance, complete PNR reverse harem, steamy paranormal reverse harem, four vampires and one woman, multiple vampire RH, multiple vampire reverse harem, enemies to lovers, undercover reporter, undercover journalist, wealthy vampires, billionaire vampires, rich vampires, wealthy vampires
Author: Kimberly Powers
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 1434700720
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Since 2005, the wildly popular Twilight saga has sold more than 42 million copies—20 million in 2008 alone—with translations into 37 different languages around the globe. Millions of teen girls are fanatical about these books. Vampire lit is hot. But why is that? Kimberly Powers knows that at the core of every young woman's heart is a longing to be truly, madly, deeply loved. And that's what's so compelling about the Bella / Edward story—the fantasy of a hero who is eternally attracted, fiercely protective, and passionately committed. Powers taps into this, using the vampire allusion to help girls explore what it is about the story that has captured their hearts. Weaving vampire lore with biblical truths and real-life stories, she helps girls move beyond the fantasy to discovery of the true Lover of their soul.
Author: Patricia O'Brien Mathews
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838910734
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Mathews uses a limited definition of paranormal, and examines works set, for the most part, in a relatively realistic modern world inhabited by both humans and paranormal beings.
Author: G. RYAN LOVE
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483651851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Date with a Vampire . . . . at a glance Have you ever fallen in love with someone from whom everything in your soul tells you to flee? Shalay did. Join the journey of Shalay as she falls for a vampire. Meet Sean McNeil, vampire, music producer, and hopeless romantic slash gigolo. As the secrets from the past unfold, living history walks and romances. Meet Tiffany and Toyoni and Marlow, as they come along for the ride as Seans sinister past comes back to hunt them. Sean has drawn his finger across the pages of history. The past that Sean has tried to out run for two hundred years has come for him again. No one is safe. No one knows what danger lurks in the shadows. No one knows the kind of love that lurks in those dark corners either. Meet Marvin, Seans friend and latest progeny. He, too has a past with Shalay. See the conflict with him and his master as he tries to redeem the memory of his late fiance, Shalays dead older sister. The uncle like bond that has been in the past comes back to life as his womanizer friend tries to settle down with his honorary niece. He however is somewhat aware of Seans more nasty acquaintances and desperately tries to stop this sordid love affair with the supernatural before its too late. G.Ryan Love, M.Ed.
Author: Aspasia Stephanou
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137349239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.
Author: Matthew Bannister
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814345344
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and performances—short films, TV series, advertisements, music videos, and media appearances—in the fabric of popular culture. The book's thesis is that Waititi's playful comic style draws on an ironic reading of NZ identity as Antipodean camp, a style which reflects NZ's historic status as colonial underdog. The first four chapters of Eye of the Taika explore Waititi's early life and career, the history of New Zealand and its film industry, the history of local comedy and its undervaluation in favor of more "serious" art, and ethnicity in New Zealand comedy. Bannister then focuses on Waititi's films, beginning with Eagle vs Shark (2007) and its place in "New Geek Cinema," despite being an outsider even in this realm. Bannister uses Boy (2010) to address the "comedian comedy," arguing that Waititi is a comedic entertainer before being a director. With What We Do in The Shadows(2014), Bannister explores Waititi's use of the vampire as the archetypal immigrant struggling to fit into mainstream society, under the guise of a mockumentary. Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016), Bannister argues, is a family-friendly, rural-based romp that plays on and ironizes aspects of Aotearoa/New Zealand identity. Thor: Ragnarok(2017) launched Waititi into the Hollywood realm, while introducing a Polynesian perspective on Western superhero ideology. Finally, Bannister addresses Jojo Rabbit (2019) as an "anti-hate satire" and questions its quality versus its topicality and timeliness in Hollywood. By viewing Waititi's career and filmography as a series of pranks, Bannister identifies Waititi's playful balance between dominant art worlds and emergent postcolonial innovations, New Zealand national identity and indigenous Aotearoan (and Jewish) roots, and masculinity and androgyny. Eye of the Taika is intended for film scholars and film lovers alike.
