Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods / / Dale Hudson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Hudson, Dale,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in American Cinema : TAC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations

A consideration of vampire film production through the lens of transnational cinemaThe figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims’ blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises.In Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood’s vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa. As the vampire’s popularity has swelled, vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity not always addressed in realist modes.Here, teen vampires comfort misunderstood youth, chador-wearing skateboarder vampires promote transnational feminism, African American and Mexican American vampires recover their repressed histories. Looking at contemporary hits like True Blood, Twilight, Underworld and The Strain, classics such as Universal’s Dracula and Drácula, and miscegenation melodramas like The Cheat and The Sheik, the book reconfigures Hollywood historiography and tradition as fundamentally transnational, offering fresh interpretations of vampire media as trans-genre sites for political contestation.Read an interview with Dale Hudson on Public AffairsVisit Dale Hudson's website to find out more about his research"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: MIGRATIONS AND MUTATIONS -- 1. BLOOD, BODIES, AND BORDERS -- 2. “MAKING” AMERICANS FROM FOREIGNERS -- 3. CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES: THE UNNATURAL WHITENESS OF AMERICA -- 4. INTERNATIONAL HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES: COSMOPOLITANISMS OF “FOREIGN MOVIES” -- 5. VAMPIRES OF COLOR: A CRITIQUE OF MULTICULTURAL WHITENESS -- 6. TERRORIST VAMPIRES: RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OR PLANETARY ADVOCACY -- 7. OTHER VAMPIRES, OTHER HOLLYWOODS: SERIALIZED CITIZENSHIP AND NARROWCAST DIFFERENCE -- CONCLUSION: HISTORY AND HOLLYWOOD, MASHED-UP -- FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX