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The monster hunter in modern popular culture / Heather L. Duda.
- Title
- The monster hunter in modern popular culture / Heather L. Duda.
- Author
- Duda, Heather L., 1976-
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- v, 185 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book examines the evolution of the contemporary monster hunter from Bram Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing to today's non-traditional monster hunters such as Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Watchmen. This examination reveals how the monster hunter began as a white, upper-class, educated male and became everything from a vampire to a teenage girl with supernatural powers"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A history of the monster hunter -- Humanity and the contemporary vampire -- Vigilantism and the graphic novel's monster hunters -- The advent of the female monster hunter -- Monster hunters for the new millennium.
- ISBN
- 9780786434060 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786434066 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008027621
- OCLC
- 213775589
- SCSB-12306203
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library