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Growing Up with Vampires

Essays on the Undead in Children's Media

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7552-7
Verlag: McFarland
Erscheinungstermin: 26.06.2018
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Growing Up with Vampires is the first book to focus solely on the figure of the vampire in print, film, and other media specifically meant for pre-teen children. Whilst narratives about the undead are often considered suitable only for adults, there is a long history of their appearance in material meant for children. Although the essays in this collection mainly consider examples from Western culture in the 20th and 21st centuries they provide an important and accessible roadmap of when vampires became popular in children’s media, how to explore the ways in which vampires are used, what they might symbolize, and what their ultimate meaning or significance might be. Vampires are never what they quite seem: in stories for children they are just as likely to be an expression of anxiety around change, growing up, aging and the unfamiliar as they are to be the new best friend who will make you realize just how special difference and individuality are. Growing Up with Vampires is an ideal introduction for those new to the topic and an invaluable resource to readers looking to gain further insight into vampires in/and children’s media.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781476675527
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4766-7552-7
  • Verlag: McFarland
  • Erscheinungstermin: 26.06.2018
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2018
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 380 g
  • Seiten: 229
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 14 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Table of Contents

Introduction (Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk)
Section One: Children's Media-Chronologies and Mediums
Children of the Night: Mainstreaming Vampires Through
Children's Media (Andrew M. Boylan)
An Invitation to a Beheading (and Another to a Birthday Bash): Encountering Dracula in Contemporary Gothic Metamorphoses Books
(Jen Baker)
The Drawn Daughters of Dracula: Vampire Girlhood in British Comics of the 1970s and 1980s (Jack Fennell)
Section Two: Negotiating Femininity and Identity
Jeepers Creepers: The American Vampirization of the Female
Immigrant Teacher in Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots (Sharon Pajka)
Under Her Batwings: Jung's Shadow Aspect as Depicted
in Monster High and My Little Pony Vampires (Jacquelyn E. Bent)
Metamorphosis of the Blood: Vampiric Femininity in Contemporary Children's Fiction (Chloé Germaine Buckley)
Problematic Parenting: Tweens and Vampire Fiction (Leslie J. Ormandy)
Section Three: Symbolism, Meanings and Interpretations
Dick and Jane and Vampires: The Interstitial Bridge Between
Social Imaginary and Spirituality (Phil Fitzsimmons)
The Dhampir Gets His Fangs: Miscegenation and Exogamy
in the Hotel Transylvania Film Franchise (Mark Chekares)
Food for Thought: Vegetarian Vampires in Children's Reading Diets (Jane M. Kubiesa)
Every Generation Gets the Vampire It Needs: What Can Vampire Narratives in Children's Films Tell Us About Childhood in the Twenty-First Century? (Allison Moore)
Looking Back and Seeing the Future: Adult Nostalgia and Negotiating the Future in Children's Books and Films Featuring Vampires (Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk)
About the Contributors
Index