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  • 100 Draculas on Screen
    Simon Bacon
    Born in the imagination of Bram Stoker at the end of the 19th century Dracula has gone on to become one of the most recognisable of Gothic villains and has been portrayed by more actors than any other horror character. Yet, while we all think we know Dracula, there are as many versions of the Count from Transylvania that are different, often knowingly so. Indeed, the more we lo...
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    35,20 €

  • Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
    Simon Bacon
    Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture looks at the recent proliferation of the ’final girl’ young heroines who have entered popular consciousness as symbolising the potential and power as one that might change the future rather than repeat the mistakes of the past, thereby becoming the ’first girl’. ...
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    75,75 €

  • Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
    Simon Bacon
    Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics in the second decade of the 21st Century, parallel, purgatorial worlds seem to c...
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    51,03 €

  • Contagion and the Vampire
    Simon Bacon
    This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease-even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics. Here the vampire gives physical form to the contagion and associated anxieties around the per...
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    48,76 €

  • Faith and the Zombie
    Simon Bacon
    Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society’s relationships with spirituality, religion and belief. By the start of the 21st cen...
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    71,79 €

  • 1000 Vampires on Screen, Vol 2
    Simon Bacon
    1000 Vampires on Screen is a truly unique collection written by award-winning author and vampire-genre expert Simon Bacon that in two packed volumes covers the history of vampires on film and television. Looking at examples, from Nosferatu to Duckula, Blacula to Twilight, and Dark Shadows to True Blood the story of the screen vampire from its first appearance on film is told fr...
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    31,89 €

  • 1000 Vampires on Screen, Vol. 1
    Simon Bacon
    1000 Vampires on Screen is a truly unique collection written by award-winning author and vampire-genre expert Simon Bacon that in two packed volumes covers the history of vampires on film and television. Looking at examples, from Nosferatu to Duckula, Blacula to Twilight, and Dark Shadows to True Blood the story of the screen vampire from its first appearance on film is told fr...
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    30,73 €

  • Spoofing the Vampire
    Simon Bacon
    Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and ...
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    79,37 €

  • The Transmedia Vampire
    Simon Bacon
    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 'vamp...
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    72,04 €

  • Vampires from Another World
    Simon Bacon
    This book begins at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, both published in 1897 London, and describes the settings of Transylvania, Mars, and London as worlds linked by the body of the vampire. It explores the 'vampire from another world' in all its various forms, as a manifestation of not just our anxieties around alien others, but also our alien selves. U...
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    72,16 €

  • Eco-Vampires
    Simon Bacon
    This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of these texts and films show the vampire to be an essential part of a global ecosystem and an organism that can no longer tolerate the all-consuming forces of globalization and consumerism. Re-examining Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a range of other vampire narratives, primar...
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    64,89 €

  • Dracula as Absolute Other
    Simon Bacon
    Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is often read as Victorian society’s absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age. This book is a study of Dracula’s role of absolute Other as it appears on screen, and an investigation of popular culture’s continued fascination with va...
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    64,89 €