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Lyda Borelli’s Satanic Rhapsody: The Cinema and the Occult [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Discussing Nino Oxilia’s film Satanic Rhapsody (Rapsodia Satanica, 1915) starring Lyda Borelli, the author examines the influence of Bergsonism on the perception of cinema right before and during World War I.
Vacche, Angela Dalle
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Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Paranormal romance is a contentious subgenre that some critics have castigated as being anti-feminist. Linda J. Lee writes that this subgenre features “male protagonists [who often] come from a cultural background in which men are dominant over women ...
Kollman, Kathleen
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“Oh, my friend, those weren’t angels”: Trauma, Recovery and Folklore in The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal and Spectred Isle by KJ Charles

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies
Trauma and recovery have been explored more and more frequently in popular literary genres. Despite the positive and uplifting disposition of the romance genre, romance novels do not shy away from depictions of even the most gruesome traumatic ...
Monika Markéta Šmídová
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Converging Horror: analyzing the importance of Convergence Culture on a digital audience through an examination of the conventions and politics of the horror genre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This thesis draws attention to the genre of horror in new media through a close examination of various digital texts, arguing that these new texts, while built on traditional horror narratives used in cinema, are also examples of Convergence Culture, a ...
Fox, Kelsey M
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\u3cem\u3eBook Review\u3c/em\u3e “Crawford, Joseph. The Twilight of the Gothic: Vampire Fiction and the Rise of Paranormal Romance 1991-2012” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is a book review for The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance by Joseph Crawford. Over the last few years, we have witnessed the publication of masses of books on the Twilight Saga, some addressed to the ...
Ramos-Garcia, Maria T.
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Monster as a Superhero: an Essay on Vampire Vogue in Contemporary Film Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The worldwide popular series Twilight is the mixed genre phenomenon in literature, media and cinema. After monstrous cinema interpretations of vampires, Edward Cullen becomes a vampire that women fall in love with.
Lejla Panjeta
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Review of Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction

open access: yesInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2022
Bill Hughes
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