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Subject(s)

• Vampires in literature [Browse]
• Vampires in popular culture [Browse]
• Vampire films—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

Palgrave pivot [More in this series]

Summary note

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher René Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred fragment, the vampire comes to embody and enact this 'sacred violence' through complex blood bonds that relate the vampire to the human in wholly new ways in the new millennium.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction
• The vampire, the scapegoat and the sacred king
• From blood bonds to brand loyalties: Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls and Alan Ball's True Blood
• 'Nothing is real, everything is permitted': the vampire and the politics of jouissance
• Contagion, simulation, capital: from Tru Blood to New Blood
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9783319483719 ((hardback))
• 3319483714 ((hardback))

OCLC

975488589

RCP

H - S

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