Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods

Dale Hudson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2308-3 (ISBN)

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In Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's 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 vampire's 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 Universal's 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.

Dale Hudson is Association Professor and Curator of Film and New Media at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.07.2017
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-2308-6 / 1474423086
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2308-3 / 9781474423083
Zustand	Neuware