Lewis’s The Wizard of Gore and Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions? Or shock-rockers like Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson? DS: I was influenced by a lot of stuff. Like Universal monsters got me into the whole horror movie thing. G&C: Dracula or Frankenstein? DS: If it was Dracula vs. Frankenstein‚ I’m a Frankensteiner. But it was also other things like Tarantino films. I remember watching Reservoir Dogs before I was even old enough. That scene where Michael Madsen cuts off the cop’s ear‚ I thought that
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The sub-genre of Vampires does this‚ but the way it induces these feelings has changed over time‚ with the two features of Male Vampires and Female Victims representing this change. Three movies that exemplify the aspect of change within the two features are‚ Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning‚ Fright Night (1985) directed Tom Holland and Twilight (2008) directed by Katherine Hardwicke. These three movies represent the change in the genre and society itself. The film Dracula directed by Tod
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Vampires have stepped out of the darkness and into the Hollywood spotlight by dominating best-selling books‚ television shows‚ and movies. Since the beginning of civilization vampires existed as a metaphor for beliefs concerning life and death and societal issues. They evoke images of beautiful seductive creatures with fangs that seduce in their prey‚ with their mesmerizing stare along with their charm‚ wit‚ and most importantly good looks. Vampires have also evolved to fit into societal trends.
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Explore how far the ’Vampire Diaries/Being Human/Misfits’ DVD cover conforms to genre conventionsIn this essay‚ I will be analysing the DVD cover of the ’Vampire Diaries’ which is a television programme in the teen-supernatural hybrid drama genre. I will also be analysing the covers of ’Being Human’ and ’Misfits’ and I will compare and contrast them with the ’Vampire Diaries’ cover. The typical genre conventions of supernatural dramas are that there are supernatural beings such as ghosts. Werewolves
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mass audience. In the task of comparing and contrasting the novel of “Dracula” to film extracts of “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”‚ values‚ meaning and context discovered lie between discrepancy and similarity. The change from differing mediums‚ novel and film‚ reveal characteristics and possibilities of narratives. Through the advancement of technology‚ modern writers have gained a cinematic approach to their writing. However Dracula‚ written in 1987 by Abraham Stoker‚ where the introduction of technology
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Difference in Memory MAHUA SARKAR Sociology‚ Binghamton University‚ SUNY Everyone lives in a story . . . because stories are all there is to live in‚ it was just a question of which one you chose . . . (Amitav Ghosh‚ The Shadow Lines)1 INTRODUCTION The study of popular memory is necessarily relational. It involves the exploration of two sets of relations: (1) that between dominant memory and oppositional forms across the public field‚ including academic productions; and (2) the relation between
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After seeing this house‚ Ila and the narrator qurrel about the importance of radical politics. Ila considers the death of Alan‚ Mike and Dan who raised their voices against war-mongering as sad because they were casualties of a ruthless nationalism. She also thought that Alan and his friends‚ who were witness to the war and the fight against fascism‚ must have been happy as she was in her political activism. The quarrel about courage and political activism continues between Ila and the narrator
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Women in "Dracula" "Dracula" is a complicated novel with many themes. Perhaps the most prominent theme is the derogatory portrayal of women. During the time period "Dracula" was written‚ there was a large feminist movement and women’s traditional roles were starting to change. As seen in "A Doll’s House" ‚ women were supposed to be the angles of the house. They were not expected to do any work other than keeping the house clean‚ and entertaining the guests and children. Stoker used Dracula as a median
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Rose Cohen’s “Out of the Shadow discusses about a Russian Jew who immigrated to the U.S. for equality and opportunities. She provides her personal aspect of immigration in the late 1800s. It also addresses the effects of rapid growth of industry‚ population‚ role of women in the social and economic system and also the complications of religion and society in America. However our other textbook “Give me Liberty” by Eric Foner has a lot of similarities to Out of the Shadow‚ Foner talked about many
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In The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Ghosts‚ both Amitav Ghosh and Shyam Selvadurai‚ critique the emphasis that society puts on geo-political borders by acknowledging that we live in a world that is deeply inter-connected. Spanning different countries and continents‚ both of the novels explore issues of identity and belonging that are unique to the diaspora. This is accomplished through the characterization of a grandmother who is displaced from her homeland due to the Bengal Partition and the struggles
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