Vampires, race, and transnational Hollywoods /Dale Hudson.

By:

Hudson, Dale M, 1965- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781474434768
9781474423090

Subject(s):

Vampire films -- History and criticism

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN1995 .V367 2017

Online resources:

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Contents:

Blood, bodies, and borders -- "Making" Americans from foreigners -- Classical Hollywood vampires: the unnatural whiteness of America -- International Hollywood vampires: cosmopolitanisms of "foreign movies" -- Vampires of color: a critique of multicultural whiteness -- Terrorist vampires: religious heritage or planetary advocacy -- Other vampires, other Hollywoods: serialized citizenship and narrowcast difference -- Conclusion: history and Hollywood, mashed-up.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PN1995.9.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1002303928

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

Introduction: migrations and mutations -- Blood, bodies, and borders -- "Making" Americans from foreigners -- Classical Hollywood vampires: the unnatural whiteness of America -- International Hollywood vampires: cosmopolitanisms of "foreign movies" -- Vampires of color: a critique of multicultural whiteness -- Terrorist vampires: religious heritage or planetary advocacy -- Other vampires, other Hollywoods: serialized citizenship and narrowcast difference -- Conclusion: history and Hollywood, mashed-up.

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