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Tag Archives: Dracula
The Bram Stoker International Film Festival
Tickets are now one sale for ‘The Bram Stoker International Film Festival’ (27th-30th October 2016). Certainly an event to get your fangs into!
Posted in Events
Tagged blood, Bloodsuckers, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Festival, Films, vampire, Vampires, Whitby
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CFP: Fourth World Dracula Congress
The Fourth World Dracula Congress organised by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula will be taking place on the 2oth-21st October 2016, at Trinity College, Dublin. The CFP has been released and abstracts of 150-250 words need to be sent in by … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Dublin, gender, Gothic, Gothic novel, sexuality, vampire, Vampires
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CFP: BBEC Conference, University of Timișoara, Romania, 23th-25th June, 2016
I am pleased to announce that I am one of the Keynote Speakers at the Second International Conference ‘Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture’ (BBEC) at the West University of Timișoara in Romania on 23th-25th June 2016. Professor Clive Bloom will also … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences, Events, OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged belief, Dracula, folk Gothic, Folklore, Gothic literature, Romania
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CFP: World Vampire Congress 2016
The following CFP has been released for the World Vampire Congress 2016 which forms part of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival (BSIFF) which will be taking place 27th-30th October 2016, Whitby, Yorkshire. More information can be found below: “World … Continue reading
Britain’s Medieval Vampires – Review
Last night I caught up with ‘Britain’s Medieval Vampires’ on Channel 4. The programme looked at a number of ‘deviant’ burials which had occurred in the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain and related them to a 12th-century text, the ‘Life and … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Reviews
Tagged anthropology, blood, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folklore, Vampires
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Shakespeare’s Vampires
My two worlds collide in this article: ‘Shakespeare’s Vampire: Hubris in Coriolanus, Meyer’s Twilight, and Stoker’s Dracula’ by Patrick Gray.
Posted in Books and Articles, Resources
Tagged Dracula, Gothic, Shakespeare, Twilight, Vampires
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Some aural and visual delights to feed your Gothic needs …
Quite a few excellent sources have recently been posted on the OGOM Facebook page. For those of you who are not Facebookers, I thought I would collect them together for your delight, delectation, and education. Firstly there is this useful … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Gothic, Gothic novel, poetry, popular culture, TV, Vampires
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Genevieve Valentine, ‘How the vampire became film’s most feminist monster’
A fascinating essay by Genevieve Valentine on the shifting nature of the powerful and ambivalent female vampire in cinema.
Roger Luckhurst, ‘Why bother reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula?’
And again, Roger Luckhurst! This time, a succinct essay on the significance of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, placing it in the context of late nineteenth-century Britain and anxieties over Empire and otherness.
Posted in Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged AIDS, blood, Bram Stoker, disease, Dracula, Empire, otherness, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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Before Bram: a timeline of vampire literature
More useful information from Roger Luckhurst on the origins of the vampire. This timeline illustrates the ethnographic and literary precursors of Stoker’s Dracula.
Posted in Resources
Tagged anthropology, Bram Stoker, Byron, Calmet, Carmilla, Dracula, Folklore, John Polidori, Southey, Tournefort, Vampires, Varney the Vampyre
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