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Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
Dale Hudson
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Description for Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474423083
SKU
V9781474423083
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About Dale Hudson
Dale Hudson is Association Professor and Curator of Film and New Media at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Reviews for Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
Hudson is building a reputation as a leading scholar on culture and globalization, and he here uses the figure of the vampire to explore issues of postcolonialism, migratory movements, and social difference...he has produced a fresh and original contribution to scholarship that should be of great interest to scholars interested in vampire media, transnational approaches to Hollywood, and the politics ... Read more