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Insatiable bloodlust dangerous sexualities the horror of the undeaduncharted Transylvanian wildernesses and a morbid fascination with the other the legend of the vampire continues to haunt the popular imagination.Reading the Vampire examines the creature in all its various manifestationsand cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literatureand in filmfrom early vampire stories such as Polidoris The Vampire J.Sheridan Le Fanus lesbian vampire tale Carmilla and Bram StokersDracula the most famous vampire narrative of all to contemporary Americanvampire blockbusters by Stephen King the vampire chronicles of Anne RicepostCeausescu vampire narratives and films such as F.W. MurnausNosferatu and Francis Ford Coppolas Bram Stokers Dracula.Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts showing howvampire narratives reproduce the anxieties and fascinations of their timesfrom nineteenth century investmets in travel and tourism issues of colonialismand national identity and obsessions with sex to queer identity of thevampire the association of the vampire with the global exotic and currentconcerns about wayward youth and the family. «
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