True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic
- ISBN-10
- 0755698657
- ISBN-13
- 9780755698653
- Series
- True Blood
- Category
- Horror television programs
- Language
- English
- Author
- Brigid Cherry
Description
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.
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- 2013-10-29
- 146 pages
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- 145 pages
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