Religion and identity in the post-9/11 vampire : God is (un)dead /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Comparing Influence: Religion and Authority Across the Transatlantic; The Problem of the Remake; Same Name, Different Aims; The Prodigal Son; Identity and Sacrifice; Religion and the Undead; Religion Within the Series; Religious Identity and Sublimation; The Possibility of Monstrosity; Chapter 3 'Muslim Buffy with a Dick': Post-9/11 Interpretations of Fundamentalism in True Blood; Post-9/11 Patriotism; Who's Your Leader? Cults, Christianity and Fanaticism; He That Is Without Sin: The Terrorism Reversal
- Television, Religion, and the Widening Textual NarrativeChapter 4 Fear, Infection and the Aftermath: Del Toro's The Strain and Its Violent Vampires; A Brief History of Del Toro; The Post-9/11 Novel and Trauma; Making Memories: Official Versus Cultural Narratives; The Politics of Fear; Science, Vampires, and the Monstrous Human; Return to the Religious Primitive; Post-Apocalyptica; What's at Stake? The Role of the Vampire; Conclusion; Index