Research Catalog

Title

Dracula's daughters : the female vampire on film / edited by Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka.

Publication

Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brode, Douglas, 1943-
• Deyneka, Leah, 1971-

Description

vii, 310 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In Dracula's Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled a varied collection of essays that explore this cinematic type that simultaneously frightens and seduces viewers. These essays address a number of issues raised by the female vampire film, such as violence perpetrated on and by women; reactions to the genre from feminists, antifeminists, and postfeminists; the implications of female vampire films for audiences both gay and straight; and how films reflected the period during which they were created. Other topics include female vampire films in relationship to vampire fiction, particularly by women such as Anne Rice; the relationship of the vampire myth to sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS; issues of race and misogyny; and the unique phenomenon of teen vampires in young adult books and films such as Twilight."--Back cover.

Subjects

• Women in motion pictures
• Vampire films > History and criticism
• Lesbianism in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: "Lamia and Lilith live!" (or at least are undead) / Douglas Brode -- The lesbian vampire film: a subgenre of horror / Andrea Weiss -- Sans fangs: Theda Bara, A fool there was, and the cinematic vamp / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Alienation, essentialism, and existentialism through technique: an analysis of set design, lighting, costume, and music in Dracula's daughter and Nadja / Paige A. Willson, Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, and Anthony J. Fonseca -- A beautiful life of evil and hate: the vampire-witch in Mario Bava's Black sunday / Lindsay Hallam -- Blood and roses (1960): realizing the Vision of Carmilla / Lauren Strong -- Soft focus, sharp knives: the projection of vampiric fantasy in Jess Franco's Succubus / Jack W. Shear -- Heritage of hammer: Carmilla Karnstein and the Sisterhood of Satan / Douglas Brode -- "Your tale merely confirms that women are mad and vain": the uncanny rendering of Countess Elizabeth Báthory's life as vampire legend / Janet S. Robinson -- The dangers of innocence: an analysis of film representations of female vampire children / Alexis Finnerty -- The women of Dracula films: brides, daughters, and fierce opponents / Carol A. Senf -- Narratives of race and gender: Black vampires in U.S. film / Giselle Liza Anatol -- Daughters of darkness: vampire aesthetics and gothic beauty / Brigid Cherry -- The sick rose: rabid and the female science vampire / Aalya Ahmad and Murray Leeder -- "You said forever": postmodern temporality in Tony Scott's The hunger / Kendall R. Phillips -- Liberating the vampire, but not the woman: Kathryn Bigelow's Near dark (1987) / Cynthia J. Miller -- Dracula's postfeminist daughters in the twenty-first century / Victoria Amador.

Call Number

MFL 14-2627

ISBN

• 9780810892958 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0810892952 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013038343

OCLC

859557857

Title

Dracula's daughters : the female vampire on film / edited by Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka.

Publisher

Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brode, Douglas, 1943- editor.

Deyneka, Leah, 1971- editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 14-2627