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Category Archives: Critical thoughts
David Castillo and William Egginton, ‘Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists’
In this essay, David Castillo and William Egginton give a very thoughtful politicised analysis of the meaning of vampires and zombies in contemporary society. A very useful adjunct to the themes discussed in the OGOM book.
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Tagged Anne Rice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, capitalism, consumerism, George Romero, Lacan, Marx, postcolonialism, The Strain, True Blood, Twilight, Vampires, Zizek, Zombies
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Greg Buzwell, ‘Bram Stoker’s stage adaptation of Dracula’
Another useful article from the BL’s excellent series. This might be useful for OGOM MA researchers as well as those concerned with the transmutation of the vampire through various media: To coincide with the British Library’s current major exhibition, Terror … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Bram Stoker, Dracula, theatre, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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Marina Warner, ‘How fairytales grew up’
More from the always-insightful Marina Warner on the fairy tale and its transformations and adaptations. Here, the essay revolves around Disney’s Frozen to encompass the many variations, dilutions, and intensifications of the original folk motifs through the ages.
M.O. Grenby, ‘Fantasy and fairytale in children’s literature ‘
‘Professor M O Grenby explores the relationship between fantasy and morality in 18th- and 19th-century children’s literature.’ This is another excellent article by Prof. Grenby of Newcastle University, from the BL website (whose collection of articles is a very useful … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Alan Garner, C S Lewis, Charles Perrault, Children's literature, education, Fairy tales, Fantasy, Genre, Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, Intertextuality, John Locke, Lewis Carroll, Peter Pan, Philip Pullman, The Arabian Nights, YA Fiction
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Roger Luckhurst, ‘Perversion and degeneracy in The Picture of Dorian Gray’
An excellent short essay on Oscar Wilde’s classic exploration of aesthetics and morality in The Picture of Dorian Grey by Professor Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck, University of London.
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Tagged aesthetics, Oscar Wilde, sexuality
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‘Christmas’ leaflet distributed in Cambridge claims homosexuals are like vampires
The monstrous vampire has longed served to represent the Other, the repulsive outsider that society shuns. And it continues to play this role, despite the ascent of the sympathetic vampire and demonic lover. As OGOM contributors have charted in the … Continue reading
Buffyology Lessons in the Academy: Buffy V Shakespeare?
Given we had some papers on Buffy at the original Open Graves, Open Minds conference in 2010 and that she made an appearance in both the OGOM book and the special issue of Gothic Studies on vampires (and that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, popular culture, the canon, Twilight
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Spectral Visions: Interview with Bill Hughes
Stephanie Gallon, of the University of Sunderland’s Spectral Visions group, has interviewed me here about the Open Graves, Open Minds Project and paranormal romance. I enjoyed the interview very much; her questions were relevant and challenging and helped me clarify … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Feminism, Folklore, Genre, Paranormal romance, sexuality, Vampires, Werewolves, YA Fiction, Zombies
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Studies in Gothic Fiction, 3.2 (2014)
The latest issue of Studies in Gothic Fiction (3.2), edited by Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, is now available on line and is dedicated to Latin American Gothic.
Davia Sills, ‘The good zombie’
Davia Sills charts the rise of the post-Romero humanised zombie and what it might represent. This will be of interest to anyone exploring paranormal romance, particularly texts such as Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead and Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies.