Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms

Tackling race, gender, and modes of narration in America. Manly P. Hall, Dracula (1931), and the complexities of the classic horror film sequel/ Gary D. Rhodes -- The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) cultural revolution / Paul R. Lehman and John Edgar Browning -- The compulsions of real/reel serial killers and vampires: toward a Gothic criminology / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek -- Blood, lust, and the fe/male narrative in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and the novel (1897) / Lisa Nystrom -- The borg as vampire in Star Trek: the next generation (1987-1994) and Star Trek: first contact (1996): an uncanny reflection / Justin Everett -- When women kill: undead imagery in the cinematic portrait of Eileen Wuornos / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek -- Working through change and xenophobia in Europe. Return ticket to Transylvania: relations between historical reality and vampire fiction / Santiago Lucendo -- Racism and the vampire: the anti-Slavic premise of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) / Jimmie Cain -- The grateful un-dead: Count Dracula and the transnational counterculture in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) / Paul Newland -- Nosferatu the vampyre (1979) as a legacy of romanticism / Martina G. L??ke -- Imperialism, hybridity, and cross-cultural fertilization in Asia. "Death and the maiden": the Pontianak as excess in Malay popular culture / Andrew Hock-Soon Ng -- Becoming-death: the lollywood gothic of Khwaja Sarfraz's Zinda laash (1967, Dracula in Pakistan (US title), 1967) / Sean Moreland and Summer Pervez -- Modernity as crisis: Goeng si and vampires in Hong Kong cinema / Dale Hudson -- Enter the Dracula: the silent screams and cultural crossroads of Japanese and Hong Kong cinema / Wayne Stein -- Identity crisis: imperialist vampires in Japan? / Nicholas Schlegel -- The western Eastern: de-coding hybridity and cyberZen goth(ic) in Vampire hunter D (1985) / Wayne Stein and John Edgar Browning.