Vampires and Blood Myth
Summer Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
[This resource is still under construction, last updated 22 March 2002]

Required Reading from texts and on-line sources.  All students are required to read the following through reserve materials, text purchases, or on-line resources.  I have tried to make as much of the material as possible available through on-line versions or reserve materials in the UWF library:
 
 

BOOKS:
Terry Prewitt [1994, 2002], The Squatter (special text, available at UWF bookstore).
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897, any edition).
READINGS:
Evan Alderson (1997) 'Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2' in Meaning in Motion, J. Desmond, ed., Duke University Press, 121-132.
Sue-Ellen Case (1991) 'Tracking the Vampire', in Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory, K. conboy, N. Medina, and S. Stanbury, eds., Columbia University Press, 1997, 380-400 (Orig. in Differences 3.2, 1-20).
Barbara Creed (1993) 'Woman as Vampire: The Hunger', in The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 59-72.
Ann Daly (1997) 'Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference' in Meaning in Motion, J. Desmond, ed., Duke University Press, 111-119.
Vera Dika (1996) 'From Dracula--with Love', in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Barry Keith Grant ed., The University of Texas Press, 388-400.
Kim Hewitt (1997) 'Anorexia and Self-Mutilation Diagnosed as Pathological', Chapter 3, Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink, Bowling Green U: The Popular Press.
Laurence Rickels (1995) The Vampire Lectures, University of Minnesota Press. Lectures one through three, 1-39.
Terry J. Prewitt (1993) 'Unholy Anorexia: Vampires of the Body and Sign', in John Deely, ed., Semiotics 1992, John Deely, ed., Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 300-319.
Phyllis A. Roth  (1977) 'Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula', Literature and Psychology, no.27, 113-121.
Roxana Stuart (1994)  Stage Blood: Vampires of the 19th-Century Stage, The Popular press.  'Stage Adaptations' (181-207), 'Film Adaptations' (217-242), 'Conclusion' (248-257).
Robin Wood (1996), 'Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula', in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Barry Keith Grant ed., The University of Texas Press, 364-378.
Bonnie Zimmerman (1984) 'Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film', in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Barry Keith Grant ed., The University of Texas Press, 1996, 379-387 (Orig. in another collection by the same editor, published by the Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, N.J. and London, 1984).
Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1890. (various editions are available).  Readings include 'Mythic Embodiments of Fertility' from the section  'Dying and Reviving Gods', pp. 163-225 of The New Golden Bough: a New Abridgment of the Classic Work, Theodor Gaster, ed. (Anchor, 1961).
Holy Bible (World English Bible on-line), readings from Genesis (4-5; 22-23), Exodus (12, 13, 22, 24, 29), the Gospel of John (6:22-70) and various parallels.

Additional Bibliography.  Graduate students are encouraged to familiarize themselves with all of the following resources:
 

Creed, Barbara (1994) The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge.
Dijkstra, Bram  (1989) Idols of Perversity:  Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Culture, Oxford.
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan (1872) Carmilla (on-line resource).
Miller, Sally (1999) Vampires, the Body and Eating Disorders:  A Psychoanalytic Approach (online resource).
Orbach, Susie (1998) Fat is a Feminist Issue, Arrow.
Prewitt, Terry (1990) The Elusive Covenant: A Structural Semiotic Reading of Genesis, Indiana U. Press.
Rickels, Laurence (1999) The Vampire Lectures, Univ. of Minnesota Press.
Stoker, Bram (1897) Dracula, (any edition).
Stuart, Roxana (1994) Stage Blood: Vampires of the 19th-Century Stage, Bowling Green U: The Popular Press.