Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession

by Tom Pollard

Overview

Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class--and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power. The author discusses three real-life role models for vampire characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786497782
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	03/14/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tom Pollard is a writer/filmmaker and professor at National University’s Department of Social Sciences. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

1 Vampires 5

2 Seducers 25

3 Genders 61

4 Monsters 87

5 Psychics 110

6 Slayers 130

7 Narratives 158

Chapter Notes 187

Bibliography 199

Index 207