Böcker av Tom Pollard

Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects - sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class - and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power.

Claims that the 9/11 attacks have affected Hollywood like few other events in U.S. history, transforming an entire era of film history.

Examines the history and social dynamics of film censorship in the United States. This book focuses both on formal censorship systems, including state and local censorship boards and industry self-regulation efforts, to unofficial censorship rendered by pressure groups and powerful social movements.