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    The Vampire Film Analysis

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    and psychological role of the vampire for the time period it was originally intended for. Since this film was released during the 1980’s it is viewed as being in line with many people’s beliefs at the time that family values were declining‚ as divorce rates were high‚ and people believed that these values needed to be re-established in society. Additionally‚ people believed that this problem could be blamed on and was due to the hippie generation‚ which is why the film also contains many references

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    ENC 1102 Vampires The thought of what a vampire really is has been changing all around world with the advancements in vampire science fiction books‚ movies‚ and television shows. Although vampires are considered mythological creatures‚ they still bring about strong opinions in our worlds society. In the earlier years of our world‚ vampires were seen as very scary mythological creatures. But‚ movies‚ television shows‚ and literature in the modern world such as The Twilight Series‚ Vampire Academy‚

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    Vampire Facts 1. Wooden Stakes only paralyze a Vampire‚ they do not kill them. 2. Vampires sleep in a freezer‚ not a coffin or on a bed. 3. Sunlight. Vampires can be in the sunlight‚ but too much direct sunlight can weaken their healing ability and kill them. 4. They have super sonic Vampire hearing. Approximatly a 1 mile radius. Also includes telling if someone is breathing or not. 5. Their sight is also heightened. They can see things from a great distance. 6. They have superspeed

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    Vampires

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    world’s vampires live in the United States‚ according to Vampire Research Center: 550 in United States. Number who live in Romania: 3"(125).The original vampire was from Transylvania unlike todays novels that place vampires in small towns in the United States. The media has turned the terror of what was the vampire into a laughing stock. An example of this is from the series Twilight by Stephanie Meyers which romanticizes the vampire‚ and doesn’t acknowledge that true and historical vampires are cold

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    Vampires In Film: The Cinematic Renderings That Reshape Myths & Legends Bryan Mitchell ENG 668 – Film Genre Studies Dr. Stephen Tropiano 2 October 2012 Vampires In Film: The Cinematic Renderings That Reshape Myths & Legends Since the dawn of the vampire film genre‚ writers and filmmakers alike have introduced new and unique imageries and characteristics to ultimately create or redefine the cinematic vampire. Giving proper recognition to Bram Stoker for his 1897 best-selling

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    The vampire‚ from folklore to literature is described as a “dead person that awakens in the night to suck the blood out of the living”. (Bartlett‚ pg 1) The evolution of the vampire itself has seen drastic changes from the time of the vampire in folklore; where he was seen as a scapegoat‚ being the cause of the plagues and had to be killed to restore a healthy civilization to‚ Bram Stocker’s literary vampire; where the vampire had become the heroic figure and had to be blamed for all the victims

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    Real Vampires

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    Vampires Stories Started Thousands of Years Ago in Myths Today They Are Very Real and Among Us   Abstract Vampires have been a part of human culture for thousands of years. There have been stories of vampire like creatures in Mesopotamia‚ Greece‚ China‚ and Europe. These stories have spanned the globe and time. The vampire has evolved overtime based on the current trends and beliefs and culture of the time. Today when the word vampire is said many visualize Dracula from the stories by Bram

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    Vampire History

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    Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures‚ regardless of whether they are undead or a living person.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures‚ and in spite of speculation by literary historian Brian Frost that the "belief in vampires and bloodsucking demons is as old as man himself"‚ and may go back to "prehistoric times"‚[7] the term vampire was not popularized

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    Shadow of a Vampire

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    How does Shadow of the Vampire appropriate the earlier texts of Nosferatu and Dracula and make or create something new? Blood sucking‚ darkness‚ gothic and death; all relate to this mysterious creature‚ the vampire. A film within a film is Shadow of the Vampire and it moulds together the texts Dracula and Nosferatu using post-modernist techniques. This creates for the audience a film that entertainingly doesn’t follow universal themes but focuses on gothic features‚ character transformations and

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    In the title‚ Shadow of a Vampire‚ you already see foreshadow for what the movie will be about; vampires and shadows come to mind and the movie do focus on those aspects‚ but what comes to mind for me‚ is a new kind of monster‚ a monster described as just a “shadow of a Vampire”. In this movie‚ you are not only introduced to a Vampire‚ whom later on you have feelings similar to pity for him‚ you are also introduced to this man‚ just a human man‚ who wants to make a film all about Nosferatu. But with

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