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Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century book cover

1st Edition

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By Simon Bacon Copyright 2025
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American environments — both physical and immaterial — the book delves into the questions relating to... Read more

Introduction, Simon Bacon 

Part I: Towns and Cities

1.     Forks: Exploited Reservations, Ongoing Subjugation and Indigenous Historicisation—The Whitewashing of Washington State in the Twilight Novels, Abel F. Fenwick

2.     Chicago: Some Girls White—Taking the “Urban” Out of Urban Fantasy in the Chicagoland Vampires Series, Cathleen Allyn Conway

3.     New York City: Bloodlines and Skylines—Vampires, Colonisation, and Gentrification in New York City, Alice Tremea

4.     Hollywood: Vampires in Hollywood, 1985–2020, Frances A. Chin

5.     Louisiana: Vampires of the American South—Exploring Undead Louisiana in True Blood and The Originals, Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska 

Part II: Environments

6.     Carnival—Vampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore, Mo Moshaty

7.     Suburbia: Blood in da ‘Burbs’, Lyz Reblin-Renshaw

8.     Urban Decay: “He Could be the Boy Next Door…”—Urban Decay and Race in Martin, Cain Miller

9.     Drifters: Vagrant Vampires—Bloodsuckers in America’s Arteries, Andrew M Boylan

10.  Borderlands: “From Here to Modernity”—The Heterotopic Meaning of the Vampires in Dusk till Dawn (Series 3), Phil Fitzsimmons

11.  Winterlands: Hideous Winter—Vampires, Violence and Snow in American Screen Horror, Gerard Gibson 

Part III: Ideologies

12.  The Margins: Boardwalk Vampire—Staking a Claim to the Edges of the American Nightmare, Michael Goodrum

13.  The Folk: Necrogeography—American Folk Horror Cinema and New England as a (Bad) State of Mind, Kristopher Woofter

14.  The Old South: “No One Likes to Reminisce About the Old Slave Days”: Romanticizing the Old South, Confederate Vampires, and Transatlantic Slavery in Twenty-First Century Vampire Media, Anita E. Siraki

15.  Capitalism: Vampire Capitalism—Daybreakers and American Bloodsuckers, Reece Goodall

16.  The Future?: A Future America—Possible Topographies of a Future Vampiric America in Stake Land (2010) and Crimson Winter (2013), Martyn James Colebrook 

Index

Biography

Simon Bacon is a writer and independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has written and edited over thirty books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (2023) and Future Folk Horror (2023).

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