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Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ni Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire's blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2019Palgrave Macmillan · 264 pages · 9781137583765
Vampire filmsVampires in literatureVampires in popular cultureHistory and criticismAmerican fictionVampires on television