The Modern Vampire Phenomenon Paradox
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Author | : Jessica Marie Landers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Heterosexuality |
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Vampires have recently established an extremely visible space in popular culture, especially among women. There are a myriad of book series, television shows, films, and more that are inundating popular culture with the vampire. The vampires portrayed in this fad, however, are not the same monsters vampires once were. The most important question for my research concerns how and why the modern vampire has contributed to the recent explosion in popularity of vampire fiction. Using texts such as the books and films of The Twilight Saga and the television series The Vampire Diaries and True Blood, I address the modern vampire assemblage as it breaks down binaries that are simultaneously restabilized by a foundation of heterosexuality. I explore the fans of modern vampires as they attempt to collapse reality and fantasy in their attempts to make modern vampires a reality. I trace the major changes that have occurred within vampire fiction in the portrayal of the vampire, from the original inherently evil, monstrous vampires to the modern vampires who choose to act against their "nature" in motivation of a good, humanitarian existence. While early representations of vampires served to draw strict boundaries between monsters, humans, and animals, modern vampires confuse the borders surrounding these beings, becoming a multiplicity of hybrids. These hybrids are provocative to fans who are able to use them to develop alternative spaces of identities in which they can question the legitimacies of binaries, categories, and the conceptualization of the human. Despite the potential for nuance, these destabilized elements are simultaneously recuperated through the reinforcement of heterosexuality. Thus, even while modern vampire fiction succeeds in providing audiences with blurred binaries and hybrids, any possible complexity is canceled out by the upholding of the foundation of heterosexuality. In order for the modern vampire phenomenon to occur, however, all of these elements must be present in modern vampire fiction. Thus the modern vampire phenomenon is constituted by contradictions that only when executed in perfect harmony do they produce the ultimate opportunity for a phenomenon such as this to occur.
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Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2015-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476620830 |
This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.
Author | : Deborah Mutch |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230370144 |
Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood, as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the Vampire, and television programmes such as Being Human and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Author | : A. Osborne Eaves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Vampires |
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Author | : Sebastian Condado De Haza |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2009-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1435720075 |
This is a guide for the Modern Vampire; therefore, if you are of the living - a warm-blooded human - you will gain nothing useful from its study. However, if you are one of the many who are new to our existence - the undead as it were - and you do not fully understand what has happened to you or how to proceed, assistance is at hand. For the recently transformed, this guide can help you understand how your body has been changed by the transformation and what to expect surviving as one of our kind. For the traditional vampire, you may learn new ways to survive. This guide provides solutions to the problem with sunlight while explaining that blood is not all we must consume for our survival. It may also help you - and possibly others of our kind - to learn and adapt to modern times while providing sufficient explanation as to who we are and, perhaps more importantly, what we are not. With this guide in hand, you will be well prepared to enter the realm of the Modern Vampire.
Author | : Claude Lecouteux |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1594776849 |
A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics • Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi • Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century newspaper articles and judicial records Of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired by this child of the night who has a predilection for human blood are based on incidents recorded as fact in newspapers and judicial archives in the centuries preceding the works of Bram Stoker and other writers. Digging through these forgotten records, Claude Lecouteux unearths a very different figure of the vampire in the many accounts of individuals who reportedly would return from their graves to attack the living. These ancestors of the modern vampire were not all blood suckers; they included shroud eaters, appesarts, nightmares, and the curious figure of the stafia, whose origin is a result of masons secretly interring the shadow of a living human being in the wall of a building under construction. As Lecouteux shows, the belief in vampires predates ancient Roman times, which abounded with lamia, stirges, and ghouls. Discarding the tacked together explanations of modern science for these inexplicable phenomena, the author looks back to another folk belief that has come down through the centuries like that of the undead: the existence of multiple souls in every individual, not all of which are able to move on to the next world after death.
Author | : Joseph P. Laycock |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This book, about real vampires and the communities they have formed, explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety. Long before Dracula, people were fascinated by vampires. The interest has continued in more recent times with Anne Rice's Lestat novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the HBO series True Blood, and the immensely popular Twilight. But vampires are not just the stuff of folklore and fiction. Based upon extensive interviews with members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire communities throughout the United States, this fascinating book looks at the details of real vampire life and the many expressions of vampirism as it now exists. In Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism, Joseph Laycock argues that today's vampires are best understood as an identity group, and that vampirism has caused a profound change in how individuals choose to define themselves. As vampires come "out of the coffin," as followers of a "religion" or "lifestyle" or as people biologically distinct from other humans, their confrontation with mainstream society will raise questions, as it does here, about how we define "normal" and what it means to be human.
Author | : Mathew Beresford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Vampire films |
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Author | : Sam George |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526102161 |
This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla. Further essays discuss the Undead in the context of Dracula, fin-de-siècle decadence, Nazi Germany and early cinematic treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from Coppola's film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. More recent manifestations in novels, TV, Goth subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in discussions of True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and much more. Featuring distinguished contributors, including a prominent novelist, and aimed at interdisciplinary scholars or postgraduate students, it will also appeal to aficionados of creative writing and Undead enthusiasts. www.opengravesopenminds.com
Author | : Amy Williams Wilson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476631832 |
Central to every vampire story is the undead's need for human blood, but equally compelling is the human ingestion of vampire blood, which often creates a bond. This blood connection suggests two primal, natural desires: breastfeeding and communion with God through a blood covenant. This analysis of vampire stories explores the benefits of the bonding experiences of breastfeeding and Christian and vampire narratives, arguing that modern readers and viewers are drawn to this genre because of our innate fascination with the relationship between human and maker.