Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century

Introduction

Part I: Towns and Cities

1. Forks: Exploited Reservations, Ongoing Subjugation and Indigenous Historicisation—The Whitewashing of Washington State in the Twilight Novels

2. Chicago: Some Girls White—Taking the “Urban” Out of Urban Fantasy in the Chicagoland Vampires Series

3. New York City: Bloodlines and Skylines—Vampires, Colonisation, and Gentrification in New York City

4. Hollywood: Vampires in Hollywood

5. Louisiana: Vampires of the American South—Exploring Undead Louisiana in True Blood and The Originals

Part II: Environments

6. Carnival—Vampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore

7. Suburbia: Blood in da ‘Burbs’

8. Urban Decay: “He Could be the Boy Next Door…”—Urban Decay and Race in Martin

9. Drifters: Vagrant Vampires—Bloodsuckers in America’s Arteries

10. Borderlands: “From Here to Modernity”—The Heterotopic Meaning of the Vampires in Dusk till Dawn (Series 3)

11. Winterlands: Hideous Winter—Vampires, Violence and Snow in American Screen Horror

Part III: Ideologies

12. The Margins: Boardwalk Vampire—Staking a Claim to the Edges of the American Nightmare

13. The Folk—A Psychogeography of the Dead: American Folk Horror Cinema and New England as a (Bad) State of Mind

14. The Old South: “No One Likes to Reminisce About the Old Slave Days”: Romanticizing the Old South, Confederate Vampires, and Transatlantic Slavery in Twenty-First Century Vampire Media

15. Capitalism: Vampire Capitalism—Daybreakers and American Bloodsuckers

16. The Future?: A Future America—Possible Topographies of a Future Vampiric America in Stake Land (2010) and Crimson Winter (2013)

Index