Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods Hardcover - 2017
by Dale Hudson
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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 victims' blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises. 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, the Philippines and South Africa. As the vampire's popularity has swelled, vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity that are 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 Dr�cula, 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 associate professor (NTE) in the Film and New Media Program at New York University Abu Dhabi and is digital media curator for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Cover image: Bill Nighy in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Patrick Tatopoulos, 2009 (c) Screen Gems/Photofest Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2308-3 Barcode
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- Title Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
- Author Dale Hudson
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date 2017-05-16
- ISBN 9781474423083 / 1474423086
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Vampire films - History and criticism, Vampire films
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017297027
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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