Contagion and the Vampire [electronic resource] : The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century / by Simon Bacon.

Bacon, Simon.
Contagion and the Vampire
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783031392023 978-3-031-39202-3
Yer Numarası
EK/2377
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2023.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VII, 104 p. 1 illus. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction -- Bodies -- Skin -- Blood -- Breath.
Özet, vb.
This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease—even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics. Here the vampire gives physical form to the contagion and associated anxieties around the perceived causes and spread of disease, where it can take on many forms from animal to pestilential particulate matter, creeping shadows and even malignant weather systems. If blood is life, it is the body of the vampire that is death. This timely study looks at how and why the vampire continues to fulfil this function and posits that the true patient zero in the 21st century is no longer the dangerous, ancient, outsider from the East but is the undying monster that is Western culture itself. Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has written and edited 25+ books including Becoming Vampire (2017), Eco-vampires (2019), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2 volumes, 2023), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (forthcoming).
Konu
Motion pictures.
Goth culture (Subculture).
Popular Culture.
Film Studies.
Gothic Studies.
Popular Culture.
Culture and Science.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)