The Lure of the Vampire

The Lure of the Vampire
Title The Lure of the Vampire PDF eBook
Author Milly Williamson
Publisher Wallflower Press
Pages 228
Release 2005
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781904764403

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This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.

The Vampire Book

The Vampire Book
Title The Vampire Book PDF eBook
Author DK
Publisher Penguin
Pages 95
Release 2009-09-21
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0756664446

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Vampires have always fascinated and frightened, and now their reach goes beyond horror-flick fans. Teens the world over have fallen under the spell of these mysterious, blood-sucking, and oh-so-alluring beings! From Buffy to Twilight, vampire fans have gotten smarter and savvier, and this is the book for them. Learn how vampires live, how they avoid capture, and why they're so darn attractive. Also trace the history of vampire lore--in literature, movies, and on television--from the woods of Transylvania to the modern-day high school. Chock full of info and insight, each gorgeous page will draw in readers of every age, with innovative styling, never-before-seen imagery, and deliciously wicked design. Perhaps this enticing tome is best read while wearing a garlic necklace . . .

Surviving Curtis Hall

Surviving Curtis Hall
Title Surviving Curtis Hall PDF eBook
Author L.A. Matthies
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 256
Release 2012-10-08
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9781475952650

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Attempting to avoid the violence and drugs at Hibernia High, sixteen-year-old Tristen McCoy and his friends have transferred on a sports scholarship to the elite Curtis Hall boarding school. Hometown lacrosse heroes, the boys are tested as they attempt to assimilate into a student body where excelling is the norm. Tristen hones his leadership skills and sense of humor while finding his way in this new environment. He and his friends must rise to the challenge of competing with peers whose skills equal and perhaps surpass their own. Tristens attention is soon captured by the beautiful and alluring Marcella Venier. Despite their different origins and upbringings, the two are drawn to each other. Marcella, compelled to live a clandestine life with dark secrets and a covert research mission, struggles with her desire to further her own designs and still remain in Tristens world. Events spiral out of control, and a student is lost in the subterranean tunnels beneath the schools campus. Tristen and his friends stand accused of foul play, and in an effort to make things right, he enlists Marcellas help in organizing a search party. During the perilous rescue attempt, danger threatens to not only sever the bonds of friendship of the group, but take their lives as well. They hope they can survive until graduation.

The Whedonverse Catalog

The Whedonverse Catalog
Title The Whedonverse Catalog PDF eBook
Author Don Macnaughtan
Publisher McFarland
Pages 282
Release 2018-06-04
Genre Reference
ISBN 1476670595

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Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon's work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings--Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.--to his forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The book covers both the original texts of the Whedonverse and the many secondary works focusing on Whedon's projects, including about 2000 books, essays, articles, documentaries and dissertations.

The Soul of Popular Culture

The Soul of Popular Culture
Title The Soul of Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author Mary Lynn Kittelson
Publisher Open Court Publishing
Pages 356
Release 1998
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780812693638

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In The Soul of Popular Culture, leading writers and critics, many of them influenced by the thought of C. G. Jung, draw upon the insights of depth psychology to delve into the meanings of TV programs like Star Trek and Fawlty Towers, movies such as The Piano and The Silence of the Lambs, and other contemporary media, as well as the public preoccupation with such issues as abortion, AIDS, the O.J. Simpson trial, and our enduring fascination with Elvis.

The Buffyverse Catalog

The Buffyverse Catalog
Title The Buffyverse Catalog PDF eBook
Author Don Macnaughtan
Publisher McFarland
Pages 964
Release 2015-08-21
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0786487879

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This bibliographic guide covers the “Buffyverse”—the fictional worlds of the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), as well as the original Buffy feature film of 1992. It is the largest and most inclusive work of its kind. The author organizes and describes both the original texts of the Buffyverse (episodes, DVDs, novels, comic books, games, and more) and the secondary materials created about the shows, including books, essays, articles, documentaries, dissertations, fan production and websites. This vast and diverse collection of information about these two seminal shows and their feature-film forebear provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive survey of the subject.

The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature

The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature
Title The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature PDF eBook
Author Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher Routledge
Pages 274
Release 2013-11-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1135053375

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Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of vampires in contemporary popular literature and demonstrating how they engage with essential cultural preoccupations, anxieties, and desires. Drawing from cultural materialism, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender studies, and postmodern thought, Piatti-Farnell re-frames the concept of the vampire in relation to a distinctly twenty-first century brand of Gothic imagination, highlighting important aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural changes that have affected the literary genre in the post-2000 era. She places the contemporary literary vampire within the wider popular culture scope, also building critical connections with issues of fandom and readership. In reworking the formulaic elements of the vampiric tradition — and experimenting with genre-bending techniques — this book shows how authors such as J.R. Ward, Stephanie Meyers, Charlaine Harris, and Anne Rice have allowed vampires to be moulded into enigmatic figures who sustain a vivid conceptual debt to contemporary consumer and popular culture. This book highlights the changes — conceptual, political and aesthetic — that vampires have undergone in the past decade, simultaneously addressing how these changes in "vampire identity" impact on the definition of the Gothic as a whole.