New Vampire Cinema

The ultimate guide to vampire films from Buffy the Vampire to Twilight and beyond Vampire films have always gone to outlying regions: not Transylvania any more (although this remains a 'magical' point of reference), but Mexico, the suburbs of Stockholm, a remote town in Alaska, the forests of the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, New Zealand. New Vampire Cinema examines forty modern classic vampire films from 1992 to the present day, responding to this remarkably long-lasting example of genre cinema. Full of remarkable energy, each new vampire film carries traces of vampires films that have preceded it: from the names of various characters to the conflicts, the fatal attractions. Full illustrated with images from both TV and Film,New Vampire Cinemais the only book that you will need to vampires and their cinematic success.

KEN GELDER is Professor of English in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Reading the Vampire (1994), the co-authored Uncanny Australia (1998), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), and Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007). He is editor of The Horror Reader (2000) and the second edition of The Subcultures Reader (2005).

Acknowledgements
Preface
Inauthentic Vampires
Bram Stoker's Dracula, Shadow of the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned
Our Vampires, Our Neighbours
Frostbitten, Let the Right One In, Let Me In, Night Watch, and Day Watch
Citational Vampires
Irma Vep, Vampire Hunter D: Blood Lust, Blood: The Last Vampire, and Thirst
Vampires in the Americas
Nadja, The Addiction, Habit, and Vampire in Brooklyn; Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse; Cronos; the From Dusk Till Dawn trilogy and the John Carpenter's Vampires Trilogy
Diminishing Vampires
The Blade trilogy; the Underworld trilogy; Ultraviolet, The Breed, Perfect Creature and Daybreakers
Bibliography
Index