Tag: Vampire
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Update: Postmodernism and History in Vampire Film
I have to apologise that this blog has been silent for the first third of the month of May. But it is because my research has been bogged down in literature and my professional career. And so, I will provide what I’ve been doing recently to forward my research, as well as where I will…
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Labels: Is Everything a Vampire?
I have not really spent much time discussing non-European vampires on this blog and I think it’s time to bring them up. There is so much to be gleaned from looking at other forms of vampires, which the European vampire simply lacks. But with that comes a need to have sensitivity and try to not…
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Update on the Timeline Project
A quick update to the timeline project I mentioned last week, I have a rough draft of it set up! I am using Flourish right now, but to be honest it is not being too cooperative. The software is free, so I can’t complain there, but it has minimal user freedom when it comes to…
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Meditations on What Defines a Vampire
With my previous review, I critiqued how the author defined and identified vampires in his study. As I said in the review, his analysis was far too broad and only served his larger narrative of occultism and early cinema. With such a critique, I feel I’m responsible for providing a definition of my own. It…
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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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On Eras and Periodisation of Vampire Fiction
On of the things we do in history is group certain events or people into eras or periods. This is called periodisation, and it is to help the part of our brain that needs pattern recognition to better process the information we are receiving. Overall, periodisation is good for those getting into a topic in…
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Review: David Annwn Jones’ Vampires on the Silent Screen: Cinema’s First Age of Vampires 1897-1922
As I mentioned in my previous post on silent film, I was reading David Annwn Jones’ monograph which goes over the cinematic infancy of vampire film. I first came across this monograph when doing my research on American vampire film, and used the section on vamps to great effect. But now I have come back…
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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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Continuing the Investigation on Silent Vampire Film
For some reason today, I want to travel back to that art deco and swing that exploded from the Interwar period. And thus, my attention is currently focused on the silent films of the 1910s – 20s, which in vampire film history is a pretty weird time. I’m going to go over what I’ve learned…