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Monster as a Superhero: an Essay on Vampire Vogue in Contemporary Film Culture [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari de Istoria Artei : Teatru, Muzică, Cinematografie, 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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Vampires, Revenant Souls, and Objects of Healing
Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2023 This study searches for the characteristic features of religious healing in three phenomena of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: veneration of miraculous images, apparitions from Purgatory, and vampire incidences. All the examples originate from
Tomáš Malý, Monika Enenklová
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The Vampires Our Age Deserves: 21st Century Forms of Ancient Evil [PDF]
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2018 Traditionally, the peoples of Southeast Asia have held beliefs in numerous forms of vampires often crossed with ghosts or other spirits, such as Pontianak of the Malay Peninsula, Phi Krasue and Phi Pop of Thailand and the Aswang and Manananggal of the ...
Michael James Joyce
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Text Matters, 2023 Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954) is about the volatile relationship between Robert Neville—the sole survivor of the human race—and vampires as the members of a brave new world order.
Hossein Mohseni
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2022 Although they made their spectacular literary appearance with the arrival of Romanticism, vampires were arousing a vivid interest well before the 19th century.
Łukasz Szkopiński
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The Corporeality of the Domestic Vampire in the Context of Soviet Nostalgia
Corpus Mundi, 2023 The article deals with the analysis of the corporeality of Russian vampires, naturalized in the domestic serial cinema at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. The vampire was a marginal character in the Russian cultural tradition of the
Sophia V. Tikhonova
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Current Biology, 2019 Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]
, 2016 The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses ...
Stępień, Justyna
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Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires
Qualitative Sociology Review, 2020 Drawing on in-depth, narrative interviews with 24 self-identified Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires, we explore how members of these communities navigate Bamberg’s three “dilemmatic spaces” or tensions of continuity/change, similarity/difference ...
Clive Baldwin, Lauren Ripley
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SCExAO as a precursor to an ELT exoplanet direct imaging instrument [PDF]
, 2013 The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme AO (SCExAO) instrument consists of a high performance Phase Induced Amplitude Apodisation (PIAA) coronagraph combined with an extreme Adaptive Optics (AO) system operating in the near-infrared (H band).
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