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Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession

AUTHOR Pollard, Tom
PUBLISHER McFarland & Company (03/14/2016)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class--and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power. The author discusses three real-life role models for vampire characters.
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ISBN-13: 9780786497782
ISBN-10: 0786497785
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 224
Carton Quantity: 32
Product Dimensions: 5.90 x 0.60 x 9.00 inches
Weight: 0.75 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Social Science | Popular Culture
Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
Social Science | Film - General
Grade Level: College Freshman and up
Dewey Decimal: 398.21
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016006304
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Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class--and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power. The author discusses three real-life role models for vampire characters.

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Author: Pollard, Tom
Tom Pollard is Professor of Social Sciences at National University in San Jose and a documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Life Network, Canadian Broadcasting System, and various PBS channels. His most recent book is "Sex and Violence: The Hollywood Censorship Wars" (Paradigm, 2010) and he has coauthored with Carl Boggs "The Hollywood War Machine" (Paradigm, 2007) and "A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema" (Rowman & Littlefield 2003).
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