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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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Current Biology, 2019 Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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Tropical Liminal: Urban Vampires & Other Blood-Sucking Monstrosities
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017 Vampires and other blood-sucking monstrous beings constitute some of the most famous myths, legends and stories that continue to haunt contemporary societies.
Anita Lundberg, Lennie Geerlings
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The Thousand-Year Kingdom: Historical Russia in Russian vampire TV series
Шаги, 2023 The paper examines the phenomenon of the vampire «new wave» of 2021 – еarly 2022 in the context of cultural policy in Russia. The author focuses on the fact that compared to foreign TV series, the image of a vampire in Russian series is strongly ...
E. Yu. Nagaeva
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The Insidious Poison of Degeneration: Vampires in Czech Decadence [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2015 The article examines vampires in Czech Decadent literature as polyvalent symbols that stand simultaneously for culture as a vampiric force and for decadence as a poisonous and infectious phenomenon.
Kirsten Lodge
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Ehquidad, 2020 We all have heard about vampires. Many cultures have developed myths and legends about vampires with different features. These tales have several common elements, as the dualism between life and death.
Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez
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Fetishism in Dracula: sex, irony, blood and the un-dead
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesVampires abhor various repellents, which the text of Dracula treats as fetishes. Vampires mysteriously shun garlic, roses, ash wood, and the crucifix. They need their home dirt and human blood.
Timo Airaksinen
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, 2023 The discussion concerning the etymology of the word vampire has continued for more than a century now, and it has produced many more hypotheses than can be reasonably examined here. This paper only reviews the most plausible ones, but it also contains a discussion of the phonetic, morphological, semantic, historical, and cultural-historical constraints,
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Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema’s Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 What can the taming of the monster reveal about its construction and the potential and limits of change? Modernist, individualist qualities of Western culture and society have shaped the construction and deconstruction of the monster in popular culture ...
P. Stuart Robinson
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Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2022 Produced as a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries (Julie Plec, The CW, 2009‑2017), The Originals (The CW, 2013-2018) depicts the return of the Mikaelsons, the white Nordic vampires Elijah, Rebekah and Klaus, to New Orleans.
Maureen Lepers
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