Transmedia Vampire

Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. Stories and characters such as Dracula, Carmilla and even Draculaura from Monster High have been made more "real" through their depictions in narratives produced in and across different platforms. This also allows the consumer to engage on multiple levels with the "vampire world," blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary realms and allowing for different kinds of identity to be created while questioning terms such as "author," "reader," "player" and "consumer." These essays investigate the consequences of such immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is so well suited to life in the 21st century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476675749

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Mer om författaren

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

Recensioner i media

“A solid collection of essays with a wide view of an expansive topic…There is much worth to be found within the volume and it is recommended”—Journal of Vampire Studies

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword: We Are, All of Us, RenfieldsJohn Edgar BrowningIntroductionSimon BaconPart I—Dracula: Adaptations and Re-CreationsWe Are Dracula: Penny Dreadful and the Dracula MegatextJeffrey Andrew Weinstock“Better Parts”: Redemptive Portrayals of Count Dracula as Vlad the Impaler in Selected Film Adaptions of Stoker’s DraculaWayne Derek Pigeon-Coote“I’ve crossed oceans of versions to find you”: Remediating Mina from Novel to Screen in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)Cathleen Allyn ConwayPart II—Across Mediums, Platforms and Levels of EngagementByzantium Stage to ScreenGina WiskerPixel Parasites: The Virtual Vampire as Enemy, Ally and Self in Video GamesShawn EdreiVampire as Doll: Transformations of Meaning Through Play in the Vampirina and Draculaura (Monster High) FranchisesDerek Newman-Stille“Do Vampires Get Their Periods?”: The Carmilla Web Series and the Politics of Bleeding WomenAlexandra Heller-NicholasPart III—Transnational TransmediaVampire Tourism: Transmedia Narratives, Cultural Histories and Locating the UndeadLorna Piatti-FarnellThinking in Connections: A.A. Carr’s Eye Killers and F.W. Murnau’s NosferatuSvetlana SeibelFrom Revenants to Vampires: The Transmedia Evolution of the JiangshiKatarzyna AncutaPart IV—Interventions, Fandom, OwnershipTransmedia Interventions and Palimpsestuous Relations: Carmilla Meets Carmen Maria MachadoNatalie WilsonThe Originals and Family History Two-Fold: Caught Between Two WorldsVerena BernardiTransmedia Vampire Stories and Their Consumers in Anne Rice’s The Vampire ChroniclesLaura DavidelFirst-Person Gothic: Anne Rice, Vampirism, Authorship and IdentityEvan Hayles GledhillAbout the ContributorsIndex