True Blood : Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic.
Title:
True Blood : Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic.
Author:
Cherry, Brigid.
ISBN:
9780857732941
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Series:
Investigating Cult TV
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Before the Night is through: True Blood as Cult TV -- PART I. The True Face of Vampires: Genre and Style -- TV Love Fangs: The Television of HBO Horror -- More than Cold and Heartless: The Southern Gothic Milieu of True Blood -- PART II. There's a bigger picture: Myths and Meanings -- 'I'm a Fairy? How Fucking Lame!': True Blood as Fairy Tale -- Drink in Remembrance of Me: Blood, Bodies and Divine Absence in True Blood -- Minoritarian Romantic Fables in HBO's True Blood -- PART III. A Button You Can Push on People: Characters and Identities -- Mad, Bad and Delectable to Know: True Blood's Paranormal Men and Gothic Romance -- Blacks and Whites, Trash and Good Country People in True Blood -- The Homosexual Vampire as a Metaphor for... The Homosexual Vampire?: True Blood Homonormativity and Assimilation -- PART IV. Knowing what it means to Love: Marketing and Fandom -- It's not Television, It's transmedia storytelling: Marketing the 'real' world of True Blood -- The Fangtasia Experience: True Blood Fans, Commodification and Lifestyle -- 'Oh Great! Now I have to Deal with Witches?!': Exploring the 'Archontic' Fan Fiction of True Blood -- Episode Guide -- Index.
Abstract:
As seen in HBO's True Blood, vampires have never been more edgy, gory or sexy. Since its arrival on screen in 2008, Alan Ball's adaptation of The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris has exploited the creative freedoms of the HBO brand and captured a cult audience with its passionate, blood-drenched visuals and stories. From viral webisodes depicting vampires announcing themselves on TV to the steamy title sequence and the show's uninhibited use of language, sex and gore, True Blood has quickly gained status as cult TV with bite. _x000D_ _x000D_ True Blood posed the question of what would happen if vampires 'came out of the coffin' and this book considers the representations of sexuality, race and class in a series that engages directly with prejudice and civil rights. It also considers True Blood's generic roots in television horror, paranormal romance and Southern Gothic, the wider contexts of fairy tales and religion, the marketing of the series and the activities of its fans. Written for students, scholars and fans, True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic explores the hidden depths of True Blood's vampire bars, small town communities and haunted bayous._x000D_.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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