...Joanna Mansbridge Among the recent spate of independent vampire films, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive uniquely depicts vampires whose immortality is under threat in a world tainted by environmental toxins. Facing their mortality as we humans face our own extinction, Adam and Eve are vampires...

... 377 particular that the vampire is an exemplary figure of contemporary postnational anxieties, figuring as it does the imbrications of inside and outside, national and transnational that preoccupy the postnational. In particular, I understand the film to be paradigmatic of contemporary...

..., Phillip Wegner's "The Pretty Woman Goes Global: Or, Learning to Love 'Americanization' in Notting Hill" examines it as it receives a Hollywood treatment. Wegner's study of the 1999 film Notting Hill, seemingly an uncom- plicated Julia Roberts romantic comedy, answers a very complex political ques...

...).” In Strindberg's Dramaturgy , edited by Stockenström Göran , 164 – 74 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Butler Erik . 2010 . Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732 – 1933 . Rochester, NY : Camden House . Carlson...

...., not subsentient, anthropopha- gic ambulatory reanimated human corpses).10 In these cases as in many zombie films, the aviary, botanical, or vampiric MacGuffin simply functions structurally as a device that threatens human characters and gets them indoors to the “survival space” (Browning 2011, 44). Wright...

.... James and the Quantum Vampire: Weird; Hauntological; Versus and/or and and/or or?” Collapse , no. 4 : 105 – 28 . ———. 2009a . “Cognition as Ideology: A Dialectic of SF Theory.” In Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction , edited by Miéville China Bould Mark , 231 – 48 . London...

... this question through a close reading of Marisha Pessl's Night Film (2013). Through the novel's intricate staging of different forms of immersion that is made possible by its extended length, this article argues that Pessl and the horror genre more generally seek to establish a difference between something like...

... primarily because it is the birthplace of Count Dracula and the vampire myth. Shangri-La, a legendary, magical city supposedly hidden deep in the Himalayan Mountains, is almost invariably associated with Tibet in the western imagination; however, Neilson chooses to emphasize the role...

... between Romania and Hungary, as well as a unique perspective on the fall of socialism in Eastern Europe, Neilson chooses this site primarily because it is the birthplace of Count Dracula and the vampire myth. Shangri-La, a legendary, magical city supposedly hidden deep in the Himalayan Mountains...

... primarily because it is the birthplace of Count Dracula and the vampire myth. Shangri-La, a legendary, magical city supposedly hidden deep in the Himalayan Mountains, is almost invariably associated with Tibet in the western imagination; however, Neilson chooses to emphasize the role...

... : Continuum . Lasker Lawrence , and Parkes Walter F. , screenwriters. 1982 . WarGames . Final shooting script. Los Angeles : Mandy Films . Latham Rob . 2002 . Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

... and a horror comic cover, a mother's face and a tattoo of a mother's face, a Frankenstein's monster's face and a vampire heart, these are presented in the pages all in the hand of a fictional female author who is “writing what she can.” In the context of comics, big, ambitious graphic novels...

..., where the threats matter; the vampire’s arrival in London in Dracula is an obvious example of this treatment. In the 1997 film of Crichton’s version of The Lost World, the dinosaur specimen literally enacts the fears surrounding developing-world immigration to America by crashing into San Diego...

...-hour science fiction film Babylon 5, and the television series Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, a coming-of-age story that is intended to be viewed over the course of seven years. Com- pared to these, Warhol's 485-minute Empire seems small. DESIGNING A NEW MEDIA ECONOMY 65 A seldom...

.... Suffice it to think of The Hound of the Baskervilles and “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” to realize how important the gothic element was in the Holmes canon. Elements such as exoticism and the imperial adventure are no less important, as is shown by The Sign of Four and “The Speckled Band...

... scripting of post-Gen X consumers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, brought to you by Maybelline. Here the product is both object of love and its allure; if you are female, single, and 19-22 years old, according to market research, you may be targeted as a consumer of love—and may be the object...

... briefly compare it to another text from about the same period that likewise attempts to lay bare the devastating conse- quences of globalization in part through a consideration of the Jamaican free zones: Stephanie Black's powerful documentary film Life & Debt (2001). An unnamed commentator...

... the reassessment of the earliest weird writers, like Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, and William Hope Hodgson, in terms of vernacular culture and the dialogism of mass-­market genres. (This fol- lows and parallels the revaluation of hard-­boiled detective fiction and film noir, mass-­market genres...