The Global Vampire

<p> The media vampire has roots throughout the world far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort humor and fear desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response bound by time and geography but is many things to many people. With a global perspective this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen <I>du monde</I> rather than an isolated monster.</p>