@article {Chaplin:2012:2040-3275:71,
title = "From blood bonds to brand loyalties: Poppy Z. Brites Lost Souls and Alan Balls True Blood",
journal = "Horror Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://intellect/host",
publishercode ="intellect",
year = "2012",
volume = "3",
number = "1",
publication date ="2012-04-30T00:00:00",
pages = "71-86",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "2040-3275",
eissn = "2040-3283",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/host/2012/00000003/00000001/art00005",
doi = "doi:10.1386/host.3.1.71_1",
keyword = "vampire, sacrifice, commodity, blood, violence, scapegoat, sacred",
author = "Chaplin, Sue",
abstract = "This article reads two contemporary vampire narratives, Poppy Z. Brites Lost Souls and Alan Balls TV series True Blood (20092011), in terms of Ren{\’e} Girards theory of mimetic violence and sacrificial crisis. Through complex representations of violence,
bloodletting and, in the case of True Blood, the commoditization of blood and blood consumption, these works depict communities on the verge of sacrificial crisis, while also gesturing towards alternative economies of blood through nuanced queerings of the vampire community.",
}