READING LIST
here is a collection of essays, articles, books, video essays, and websites i have learned from (also includes my TBR)
vampires
books
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach
From Demons to Dracula: the Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth by Matthew Beresford (TBR)
Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, And Gay Cowboys by Barbara Caroline Mennel (TBR)
The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom (TBR)
Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber (TBR)
In Search of Dracula by Raymond T. McNally (TBR)
articles
Fear of Desire: Dracula, Purity Culture, and the Sins of the Church
misc
Kutztown University's Journal of Dracula Studies has an archive of their journal, which consists of articles about Dracula and vampires, dating back to the 1999 edition
CSU Bakersfield's Motif Index of Vampires is an index of vampire motifs, and cites sources from folklore all the way to 21st century literature and film. Has a glorious reference list.
essays
Vampirism and Blood Identity: An Analysis of Social Constructions and Anxieties
Women and Vampires: Nightmare or Utopia?
Vampires as a Tool to Destabilize Contemporary Notions of Gender and Sexuality
Sex, Blood and (Un)Death: The Queer Vampire and HIV
Not Just Dead, But Gay! Queerness and the Vampire (TBR)
Daughters of the Darkness – Lesbian Vampires in Hollywood during and after the Hays-Code (TBR)
The Evolution of the Vampire in Fiction and Popular Culture (TBR)
The Vampire in the Machine: exploring the undead interface (TBR)
The Vampire with a Thousand Faces: towards a physiognomy of the undead (TBR)
Vampire : Understanding the symbolism behing the iconic figure (TBR)
The first vampire films in America (TBR)
Conformity through transgression: the monstrous other and virtual vampires (TBR)
Consuming Appetites and the Modern Vampire (TBR)
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (TBR)
horror
videos & podcasts
fashion
info
FITNYC's fashion history timeline
An Agreeable Tyrant is an exhibition from the DAR museum that looks at the role of fashion in America after the revolution in the creation of a new national identity
The Vintage Fashion Guild is an organization and vintage fashion knowledge base. i've found their fashion history timeline helpful!
Epochs of Fashion is a website by Nina Moller, who seems to be a fashion history hobbyist. I've found her compilation of fashion history information helpful.
databases
The University of Washington has a great digital collection of fashion plates
The MET Museum has a great digital collection of over 12,000 fashion plates. you can navigate the subcollections here
essays
The Effects of the American Civil War on Northern Fashion of the Era as Reflected in Peterson’s Magazine by Nicole Johnston-Blatz (TBR)
the renaissance period and art
religion
misc
books
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages by Penelope Reed Doob