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Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture

Letting the Wrong One In
Palgrave Gothic

von: David Baker, Stephanie Green, Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska
85,59 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	14.11.2017
ISBN/EAN:	9783319627823
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about hospitality, rape and consent. The first section welcomes the reader into ominous spaces of home, examining the vampire through concepts of hospitality and power, the metaphor of threshold, and the blurred boundaries between visitation, invasion and confinement. Section two reflects upon the historical development of vampire narratives and the monster as oppressed, alienated Other. Section three discusses cultural anxieties of youth, (im)maturity, childhood agency, abuse and the age of consent. The final section addresses vampire as intimate partner, mapping boundaries between invitation, passion and coercion. With its fresh insight into vampire genre, this book will appeal to academics, students and general public alike.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Artful Courtship and Murderous Enjoyment: Introduction - David Baker, Stephanie Green, Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska.- 2. Part I: The Dangers of Crossing the Threshold: The Interplay of Power between Host and Guest. 2. Crossing Borders: Hospitality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire - Maria Parrino.- 3. “Come on in!” Home, Hospitality and the Construction of Power in The Originals - Verena Bernardi.- 4. Fans and Vampires at Home - Lucy I. Baker.- 5. Breaking and Entering: Psychic Violation, Metempsychosis and the Uninvited Female Vampire - Simon Bacon.- 6. Part II - Vampiric Bodies: History, Humanity and Subversion. 6. Time and the Vampire: The Idea of the Past in Carmilla and Dracula - Stephanie Green.- 7. Breach of Consent: Jean Rollin and Le Viol du Vampire - David Baker.- 8. Part III - Those Bloody Kids: Consent, Liminality and the Uncanny in the Figure of Vampire Child. 8. Coming of Age, With Vampires - Amanda Howell.- 9. Consensual and Nonconsensual Sucking: Vampires and Transitional Phenomena - Terrie Waddell.- 10. Part IV - Bloody Romance: Vampires in Intimate Relationships. 10. It’s a Love Story—Involving Vampires: The Cinematic Trope of the Wedded Bloodsucker - Samantha Lindop.- 11. The Lower Dog in the Room: Patriarchal Terrorism and the Question of Consent in Charlaine Harris’s The Southern Vampire Mysteries - Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska.- 12. Seductive Kindness: Power, Space and “Lesbian” Vampires - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.

Autorenportrait

Dr David Baker lectures in film studies at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia. He is author of “Bowie’s Covers, The Artist as Modernist” in Enchanting David Bowie (ed. T. Cinque, Ch. Moore and S. Redmond; 2015), and publishes widely on popular cinema genres.Dr Stephanie Green is Deputy Head of School in Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia, and author of ‘Desiring Dexter: The Pangs and Pleasures of Serial Killer Body Technique’, Continuum 26 2012, 579-588 and The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes (2013). Dr Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Poland; author of Constructing Ethnic Identity of Swedish-American Children: Augustana Book Concern (1889-1962) (2011, in Polish), and co-editor of MonstrousManifestations: Realities and Imaginings of the Monster (2013).

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Sonderbeitrag

Offers a fresh and provocative insight not only into vampire genres, but also into anxieties of cultures and societies that produce them Illuminates the role of the vampire as an embodiment of the violent and violated, oppressive and oppressed Other who provokes fear and fascination Focuses on intersecting themes of hospitality, rape and consent in the vampire tradition Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Unpublished endorsement

“The essays in this volume offer astute and complex readings of the vampire legend; they frequently challenge traditional approaches while offering new, original and creative interpretations. What happens when the vampire is the “wrong” one for its victim but potentially the “right” one for the viewer or reader? To what extent is the vampire a catalyst or an agent of transformation, one whose horrific actions challenge the viewer/reader to explore his or her own beliefs, values, fears and fantasies? This is a stimulating and challenging collection that opens up new questions just when we thought that there was very little left that could be said about our troubled relationship with vampires and what might occur when we invite the wrong one in.” (Professor Barbara Anne Creed, University of Melbourne, Australia)