Vampires, race, and transnational Hollywoods /

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The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victimś⁰₉ blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hudson, Dale M., 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Series:Traditions in American cinema.
Subjects:
Vampire films > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
Vampire films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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