Category: Quick Thoughts
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Quick Update: New Visual Timeline Project
It has been a long while since I have given an update on my research, and to be honest it is because there was a moment of burn out after that spree in March and into early April. But I am back to introduce a new material I will be hyperfixating on instead of 1890s…
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Issues with I Am Legend Adaptations in Film
I have read plenty of vampire books in my research, but none were more interesting than Richard Matheson’s 1954 I Am Legend. It is a literary landmark in vampire fiction as it takes the science fiction craze of the Post-war era and combines it with older, literary vampires to create something entirely new. As it…
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Quick Thought: What About Porn?
Much like my post about anthologies, the question to include certain mediums of film in my research is always a constant debate. For instance, porn. I know that it is considered lowbrow entertainment, and that most would not dare prop up pornography to the heights of something like arthouse films. Skin flicks are a world…
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On Anthologies: A Tricky Business
In my journey to catalogue all vampire films, I have come upon a serious problem in my investigations. Almost all of the lists I have seen include anthologies, that is, a collection of shorter films with little to no connection to one another. But the problem does not lie with the format of anthologies, but…
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Quick Thought: SINNERS and the Oscars
Everyone has already been talking about this recently, but I felt it would be an injustice for a blog called “The Western Vampire Scholar” to not at least mention the seminal Oscar wins for Ryan Coogler’s SINNERS (2025). It wasn’t till the 1990s that vampire films were even nominated for Oscar awards, let alone winning…