Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession

by Tom Pollard

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786497785
• ISBN13: 9780786497782
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher