Dissertations / Theses: 'Interview with the vampire'

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Gianniny, Megan E. ""Other than Dead": Queering Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire, and The Gilda Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/382.

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This thesis examines three diverse vampire narratives from around the 1990s, arguing that the liminal figure of the vampire, forever in between life and death, is also then well-positioned to queer norms around gender, sexuality, and relationships. This queering, however, manifests differently in each narrative. My analysis looks at each of these three narratives in turn, while also considering how each text’s placement as mainstream or not mainstream affected the manifestation of the vampires’ queering.

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Hradec, Patricia. "Vampiros humanizados: análise da obra Interview with the vampire de Anne Rice." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2014. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2185.

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This dissertation aims to analyze the novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, the first of ten books in the Vampire Chronicles". The aim of this research is to demonstrate how the vampires presented by Rice are humanized. It begins with a historical study about vampires, both legendary and literary ones, then there is a study about the life and work of the American writer as well as a survey of the differences between the vampires from Rice and others described in the literature, including the icon of the genre: Dracula, by Bram Stoker. The analysis still continues with some theoretical notes on the fantastic genre, including concepts about Todorov, Ceserani, among others. There is also an analysis of the main characters: the vampire Louis who denies his vampiric nature; the vampire Lestat who also fights against human problems; Claudia, the vampire kid, who does not accept her condition as a woman stuck in a child s body; the vampire Armand, one of the oldest vampires in the world that looks for human peace. There is also an analysis of a human character, a supposed journalist, who listens to the story of mortal and immortal life of the vampire Louis. The analysis also covers the time and space in the narrative and its relationship with the fantastic genre, as well as some differences between the book written in 1976 and the film released in 1994, a big hit, reference for many other vampire movies.
Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar o romance Interview with the Vampire de Anne Rice que é o primeiro livro dos dez que constituem suas Crônicas Vampirescas . Pretende-se com esta pesquisa demonstrar como os vampiros apresentados por Rice são humanizados. Inicia-se com um estudo histórico sobre os vampiros, tanto lendários quanto literários, depois há um estudo sobre a vida e obra da escritora norte-americana bem como um levantamento das diferenças entre os vampiros de Rice e outros descritos na literatura, entre os quais o ícone do gênero: Drácula, de Bram Stoker. A análise continua ainda com alguns apontamentos teóricos sobre o gênero fantástico, incluindo conceitos de Todorov, Ceserani, entre outros. Há também uma análise dos principais personagens: o vampiro Louis que renega sua natureza vampírica; o vampiro Lestat que também luta contra problemas humanos; Cláudia, a menina vampira, que não aceita sua condição de mulher presa a um corpo de criança; o vampiro Armand, um dos mais velhos vampiros do mundo que almeja a paz humana. Há ainda a análise de um personagem humano, um suposto jornalista, que ouve toda a história de vida mortal e imortal do vampiro Louis. A análise ainda abrange o tempo e espaço da narrativa e sua relação com o gênero fantástico, bem como algumas diferenças entre o livro escrito em 1976 e o filme, lançado em 1994, um sucesso de bilheteria, referência para muitos filmes sobre vampiros.

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Lima, Dante Luiz. "Bloody eroticism in interview with the vampire." Florianópolis, SC, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/90081.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente
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Este estudo tem o intuito de investigar como textos literários são adaptados para o cinema. Esta investigação foi feita usando-se o romance Entrevista com o Vampiro (1976) de Anne O´Brien Rice e sua adaptação fílmica (1994) dirigida por Neil Jordan. O aspecto principal do romance e do filme analisados durante a pesquisa foi o homoerotismo. Para se fazer a investigação foram usadas as passagens mais importantes do romance onde o homoerotismo é mais evidente, isto foi feito para dar apoio a hipótese de que o vampiros do sexo masculino de Rice tem atração um pelo outro, especialmente os protagonistas Louis, Lestat e Armand. Com relação ao filme, três cenas onde o homoerotismo é mais evidente foram selecionadas para mostrar como os adaptadores fazem a transposição. Ressalta-se que o conteúdo homoerótico da estória diminui drasticamente quando transposta para a tela do cinema sob a direção de Jordan. As implicações das escolhas feita pelos adaptadores são discutidas com respaldo em estudos de estudiosos de cinema. No caso de Entrevista com o Vampiro, muitos personagens do romance foram excluídos, a aparência física dos personagens principais foi mudada e muitos outros elementos foram acrescentados e subtraídos. Portanto, este estudo apresentará teorias de adaptação fílmica para tentar explicar como a transposição acontece. This study aims at investigating how literary texts are transposed to the screen. This investigation was done using the novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) by Anne O'Brien Rice and its filmic adaptation (1994) directed by Neil Jordan. The main aspect of the novel and the film analyzed during the research was the homoeroticism. In order to do the investigation the most important passages of the novel in which the homoeroticism is more evident were analyzed to support the hypothesis that Rice´s male vampires are attracted to each other, especially the protagonists Louis, Lestat and Armand. Regarding the film, three scenes from it in which the homoerotic overtones are more evident were selected to show how film adaptors perform the transposition. It must be pointed out that the homoerotic content of the story diminishes drastically when transposed to the screen under Jordan´s direction. The implications of the choices made by the adaptors are discussed under the light of film scholars. In the case of Interview with the Vampire, lots of characters from the novel were left out, the physical appearance of the main characters was changed and many other elements were subtracted and added. Thus this study will present theories of film adaptation to try to explain how the transposition takes place.

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Silva, Lilian Maria Araujo da. "The Body of condemned in Anne Rices The Vampire chronicles: Interview with the Vampire." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1033.

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Esta dissertação trata do gótico literário, especialmente nas literaturas de língua inglesa. O tema principal gira em torno da figura do vampiro. A escolha do tema é resultado de minhas leituras sobre a primeira aparição do vampiro na prosa literária, figura oriunda das lendas na Europa oriental e central. Partindo do século XVIII, chego até a contemporaneidade, em solo norte-americano, onde se passa a narrativa de Entrevista com o Vampiro, romance este que será o foco principal de meus estudos sobre o gótico e o vampiro na literatura. Composta de três capítulos, esta dissertação trata das origens da lenda do vampiro e o seu ingresso na literatura, da questão do corpo humano e do corpo híbrido do vampiro. Por último, analiso o romance que impulsionou minha pesquisa, em diálogo com os capítulos anteriores
This dissertation is about the literary gothic, especially in literatures in English language. The main theme focuses on the figure of the vampire. Such a choice is the result of my readings of the first appearance of the vampire in prose fiction. The vampire arose in the legends from Eastern and Central Europe. Starting from the 18th century, I come to the present, in North-American soil, where the narrative of Interview with the Vampire takes place. This novel will be the center of this dissertation on the literary gothic and the vampire. Composed of three chapters, this work deals with the origins of the legend of the vampire and its insertion in literature; with the human body and the hybrid body of the vampire. Lastly, I analyse the novel that is in the center of my research, in a dialogue with the previous chapters

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Osap, Sonja. "Queer as Vampires : A study of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire through queer theory." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6262.

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This paper will focus on the homosexuality and homoeroticism that can be found in Anne Rice’s novel Interview With The Vampire using Queer theory. The paper is divided into four parts in which different aspects of the novel will be discussed. Firstly the discussion focuses on the homoeroticism which is abundant in Rice’s novel. The second part covers the subject of identity and Louis’ quest to find out what and why he is. Next the issue of family within the vampyric world is examined using the family unit that Louis, Lestat and Claudia make as its basis. Lastly the question of why the ‘gender-free’ love which is present in Interview With The Vampire is important to the vampire genre is answered.

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Bendel, Jared A. "A queer perspective| Gay themes in the film "Interview with the Vampire"." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1539594.

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There are a growing number of mainstream films and television shows which include gay characters or same-sex families as central figures: A Single Man, The Kids Are Alright, Will & Grace, Mad Men, Two and a Half Men, and Modern Family. This thesis sets out to determine if the film Interview with the Vampire, which preceded the above named films and television shows by more than five years, is a cite of queer cinema that focuses on gay themes while proposing a same-sex family. In coupling Seymour Chatman's rhetorical theory of narrative in fiction-literature and film with Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin's theory of Queer Cinema, the study focuses on locating and citing specific instances where gay themes of identity and identification along with the theme of the same-sex family emerge. The study utilizes the novel Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice as a critical touchstone and draws from Roland Barthes' concept of "Rhetoric of the Image" to evaluate the strength of the themes found within the adapted film Interview with the Vampire. The research finds several examples of the re-presentation of individual gay lives and uncovers evidence of a cinematic representation of a same-sex family. The researcher concludes that while the film Interview with the Vampire is certainly an example of queer cinema, it also presents a same-sex family unit that may be the first of its kind.

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Paquiot, Alethea. "Images de la transgression : Carmilla (1872), Dracula (1897) et les vampires d'Anne Rice." Thesis, Le Havre, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LEHA0028.

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Devenu célèbre sous les traits de Dracula, le vampire est un monstre révélateur et résilient qui s'est fait archétype incontournable de la culture populaire et dont l'existence diégétique précède le roman de Bram Stoker. Du folklore à la fiction et de l'ombre à la lumière, son évolution est représentative des sociétés et des époques dans lequel il revient à la vie. A la fois transgressifs et normatifs, ses avatars jouent un rôle cathartique en incarnant le refus des lois humaines naturelles et divines, mais aussi la réitération de ces règles et la création de canons littéraires. Cette étude diachronique centrée sur "Carmilla" (1872), "Dracula" (1897) et les vampires d'Anne Rice démontre que leurs aventures invitent à réfléchir autant aux conséquances des fautes qu'à la validité des normes, à l'essence de la nature et des failles humaine et à la fonction libératrice des personnages de fiction et particulièrement des monstres
Known to most as Dracula, the vampire is revealing and resilient monster whose diegetic existence predates Stoker's novel, and that has become a key figure of popular culture. From folklore to fiction and from shadow to ligjhte, its evolution is indicative of the times and societies in wich it return to life. Equally transgressive and normative, its avatars play a cathartic role aas they epitomize rejection of human, natural and divine laws, but also the reiteration of the rules and the creation of literary canons. This diachronic study focused on "Carmilla" (1872), "Dracula" (1897) and Anne Rice's vampires shows that their adventures induce reflection on both the consequences of wrongdoing and the validity of norms, on the essence of human nature and hubris, and the liberating fucntion of fictional characters, particulary monsters

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Kemp, Kurt Alan. "Anne Rice's vampire aesthetic : redefining the vampire tradition /." View online, 1994. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998858840.pdf.

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Stephanou, Aspasia. "Our blood, ourselves : the symbolics of blood in vampire texts and vampire communities." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3644.

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My thesis examines the ways in which blood is represented in vampire novels, films, and vampire communities. I locate my thesis within a postmodern framework that encompasses a diverse range of critical approaches such as postmodern, feminist and materialist theories, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and histories of medicine and ideas. The mixture of high and low status texts selected examine the ways identity, self-fashioning and the body are constructed through their use of a symbolics of blood. The first chapter examines the changing meanings of blood in vampire texts from the nineteenth century to the present through the discourses of medical science and technology. While blood is shown to be an important fluid in biomedicine, at the same time it conjures up associations with identity and corporeality. The second chapter examines consumption as a trope to define and control the female vampire. Through the analysis of literal and figurative acts of cannibalistic consumption, eating and incorporation in vampire literature, the chapter seeks to address female appetite, disease and identity. The third chapter examines the use of blood and postmodern self-fashioning in vampire communities in order to expose the various meanings of real or symbolic blood within postmodern culture. I conclude by addressing issues and ideas that my thesis has brought to the fore and which can be explored further.

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Soloviova-Horville, Daniela. "Du vampire slave au vampire occidental : genèse et migrations d'une figure de l'imaginaire." Amiens, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006AMIE0016.

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L’étude examine les particularités de la vision slave du vampirisme et retrace les étapes de sa migration au sein de la société et de la littérature occidentales aux XVIIIe et XIXe s. Elle examine les facteurs favorisant la découverte des cas de vampirisme survenus en Serbie dans les années 1730. L’analyse des réactions des penseurs du XVIIIe s. Face à cette ‘superstition’ montre que le vampirisme est stigmatisé comme une pathologie culturelle, l’apanage des peuples incultes. L’examen des définitions des dictionnaires du XVIIIe s. Témoigne de la focalisation sur l'aspect gorgé de sang du vampire. La fascination devant la pléthore sanguine répond ainsi à la perplexité devant la pléthore de preuves ‘officielles’. Dans la littérature du XIXe s. L’image du corps vampirique reflète les préoccupations d’une société occidentale en quête d’elle-même. Le vampire devient le symbole du mal-être et du désir insatisfait - le corps pâle et exsangue se fait l’allégorie du manque et de la privation
Beginning with an analysis of the Slavic vision of vampirism and its attributes, our dissertation traces the various stages of its development in Western European literature and culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, before examining the factors responsible for the growing notoriety of Serbian vampire "cases" in the 1730s. The numerous philosophical and theological treatises concerning this "superstition" substantiate the fact it was considered a pathological adjunct of ignorant peoples. Eighteenth century entries in dictionaries stress the distended aspect of vampires bloated with blood, the fascination for which can be measured by the plethora of official texts "proving" their existence. The image of the vampire in 19th century literature exemplifies Western European society's quest for identity, and it is within this framework that the vampire came to connote infirmity and unquenched desire, with the pale and bloodless body becoming the allegorical representation of deprivation

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Muniz, Sutton Yayza [Verfasser]. "Vampirism, Vampire Cults and Vampire Fanaticism. A Rising Need for Gothic Criminology / Yayza Muniz Sutton." München : GRIN Verlag, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1215342977/34.

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Pearl, Michael S. ""All that we become" renegotiating vampire/performative masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004891.

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Arsenault, Lucie. "La figure du vampire dans le texte narratif québécois. Typologie du vampire et phénomène d'attraction-répulsion." Thèse, [Rimouski, Québec] : Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2006.

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Thèse (M.A.) - Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2006.
Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 20 juin 2007). Mémoire présenté à l'Université du Québec à Rimouski comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en études littéraires. Comprend un résumé. CaQRU CaQRU CaQRU Bibliogr.: f. [135]-143. Parait aussi en éd. imprimée. CaQRU

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Chan, Pui Nam. "Empowerment and vampire literature: an examination of female vampire characters as a cultural response to oppression." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/475.

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Vampire and Vampirism have raised the interests of the public from 1700s. Vampire is being used as a lens to discuss social issues in the real world. However, it is seen that there are limited works discussing the situation of coloured communities. This project is to examine female vampire figures in select works and evaluate the extent to which those figures are able to represent an empowered image of women of colour. To achieve this aim, textual analysis will be used to examine classical vampire literature, such as Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1872/2003), Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "Luella Miller" (1902/2014), Bram Stoker's Dracula (2007), Anne O'Brien Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976/2010) and L. A. Banks's Minion (2003). There will be interdisciplinary reading of the social situation and behavior of the colored alongside with textual analysis of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories: A Novel (1991) and Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling: A Novel (2005). I will conclude that vampire literature has the ability and potentiality to reflect social behavior and environment of the coloured, especially coloured women. The contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate that reflecting the situation of the coloured can be a new area for vampire literature to explore in the future development and evolution of vampire literature as a genre. This is also breakthrough to the function of vampire literature as a genre because on top of appearing as entertainment and reflection of society, vampire literature is able to serve social function to empower and enlighten readers by raising their awareness to social issues that people are used to neglect.

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Larsson, Benjamin. "The Vampire Diaries : en semiotisk analys." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-9623.

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Syfte: Jag har velat svara på frågeställningarna hur maskulinitet och femininitet framställs i "The Vampire Diaries" Tidigare forskning: I min teori har jag utgått från Linda Fagerström och Maria Nilson som har forskat om hur medier påverkar våra perspektiv angående genus, Marguerite Morits som har studerat filmer och serier i televisionen i Amerika på 1970-talet utifrån ett genusperspektiv och Emile Durkheim som har studerat maskulinitet och femininitet i samhället utifrån ett historiskt perspektiv Metod och material: Jag har utfört en semiotisk analys av de tre första avsnitten i den första säsongen av "The vampire diaries". Det är en serie som sänds i televisionen på kanalen TV6 i Sverige och på kanalen CW i Amerika. Semiotik kan kortfattat beskrivas som teckenlära. I analysen har jag utgått från ett genusperspektiv. Huvudresultat: Jag har funnit en framställning av femininitet och två framställningar av maskulinitet i "The Vampire Diaries". De båda maskulina framställningarna liknar varandra samtidigt som det finns skillnader mellan dem. Detsamma går att finna mellan dem och den feminina framställningen.

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Nävsjö, Dana. "From Threat to Thrill : A Comparative Study of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-90929.

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The purpose of this essay was to compare the classic vampire narrative, Bram Stoker's Dracula, to a more contemporary vampire narrative using the first book, Twilight, in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series as a prime example. By looking at the world of the vampire, the figure of the vampire and the interaction between the vampire and the main female characters in each respective story, the goal was to see how much the vampire narrative has evolved. The argument was that the movement from Dracula to Twilight was from an archetypical, terrifying vampire to a more modern, sexually alluring and romantic vampire, where several aspects of terror have been removed. What has been shown is that there are many aspects that have changed once terror is not the focal point. In addition, this essay also argued that in a classroom setting one could use a modern vampire narrative, such as Twilight, to activate pupils’ interest in vampires which would naturally segue into meaningful discussions, comparisons and analyses of the prototypical vampire narrative found in Dracula. As a result, this activity would also encourage students to read literature and explore new worlds

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Nygren, Anna. "Vampyrers död och Andra(s) kroppar : En studie av True Blood, Vampire Diaries och Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65056.

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I den här uppsatsen undersöks hur vampyrer dör i TV-serierna True Blood (2008-2014), Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) och Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). Genom närläsning och jämförelser mellan dessa olika sätt att skildra vampyrers död diskuteras vad detta innebär för den roll vampyren får i respektive serie, och vad det betyder för skildringen av kropp och kroppslighet. Jag använder mig av teorier kring skildringen av (mänsklig) död på film, samt för en diskussion i relation till bland annat Judith Butlers begrepp ”sörjbara kroppar” och Giorgio Agambens ”bare life”. Utifrån detta ställs frågor om hur vampyrer, deras död och skildringen av denna relaterar till de diskurser om mänsklighet som genomsyrar serierna och deras kontext.

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Pavicevic, Mylena. "Charles Nodier et le thème du vampire." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66079.

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Sjöberg, Jakob. "Beauty and the Beasts : the Vampire Slayer." Thesis, Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11413.

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Bilden av ”manligt” och ”kvinnligt” har i skräck- och action-filmer/TV-serier länge varit väldigt stereotyp. Kvinnan har ofta spelat rollen som den utsatta, den svaga, det som kallas ”Damsel in distress” i karaktärsbeskrivningar. Mannen har å sin sida varit den mer eller mindre felfria hjälten, som alltid vet råd. Under 1990-talet och 2000-talet började bilden ändras inom den genren. Starka kvinnor dök upp i form av karaktärer och filmer som Lara Croft och Resident Evil. TV-serien Buffy – the Vampire Slayer, som sändes mellan 1997 och 2003, var också en del i detta, främst genom att låta huvudrollen spelas av en ung blond kvinna, som i regel annars snabbt hade fått falla offer för mördaren/monstret. Det jag är intresserad av att undersöka i min uppsats är hur de manliga karaktärerna påverkas och utvecklas i en TV-serie som domineras av starka kvinnliga karaktärer. Vad får de representera för ideal för sin publik? Reduceras mannen här till en liknande stereotyp roll som kvinnan tidigare gjorde inom samma genre?

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Marigny, Jean. "Le Vampire dans la littérature anglo-saxone /." Paris : Didier, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34781156x.

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ASSUNCAO, SERGIO CARVALHO DE. "VAMPIRE: MYTH AND UNTIMELINESS IN JORGE MAUTNER." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4260@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
A experiência do trabalho pretende comprovar a atualidade de Jorge Mautner através da relação entre sua vivencialidade e sua obra, na dinâmica e movimento de sua criação e ação intempestivas visando a cultura nacional, desde seu surgimento (1958) com a canção-emblema Vampiro, até os dias de hoje: a força e a originalidade de sua música, sua literatura, em imanência com seu pensamento, na experimentação e afirmação do real a partir de sua invenção e discursividade.
This work intends to show the Jorge Mautners present relevance by examining the relation between his living experience and his oeuvre, in the dynamics and movement of his untimely creation and action vis-à-vis Brazilian culture, from his debut with the emblematic song Vampiro (1958) to the present: the strength and originality of his music and literature, according to his thought, his experimentation and assertion of reality through inventiveness.

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Dyson, Gennie Marie. "The vampire as eugenic examiner, 1880-1896." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2013. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19588/.

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This thesis is concerned with the way in which the figure of the vampire is used by some authors of nineteenth century fiction to eugenically test their victims: killing and sterilizing where they find degenerate behaviours that would harm society were the victims allowed to breed. This occurred not only in texts by well-known authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'John Barrington Cowles', Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla' and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Good Lady Ducayne' but also in the fiction of less familiar authors such as Count Eric Stenbock's 'A True Story of a Vampire'. I argue that the victims that feature in these tales can all be considered a danger to society and the vampire functions to examine, judge and carry out necessary execution where needed. Close textual analysis and examination of period scientific theory and newspapers will demonstrate how some authors, through the familiar symbol of the vampire, discussed social problems and suggested cures through the use of selective breeding programmes. Critical thought has placed the fin de siecle vampire in a negative role, especially in academic writing relating to Dracula; the vampire is seen as changing and degenerating society with their 'otherness' in a harmful way. My original contribution to knowledge is to offer a new perspective which suggests that this general perception needs to be nuanced, because I reveal how some of the vampire texts of the late nineteenth-century viewed the vampire as a more constructive symbol. While I acknowledge that vampires are seen as a destructive force in these texts, what they wreak is not destruction in a negative sense but in a positive one that will ultimately benefit society by removing potentially harmful elements.

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Ruggieri, Maria Cristina. "Le vampire : origines folkloriques et transpositions cinématographiques." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030157.

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"L'"existence" du vampire est un leitmotiv récurrent dans des époques et des domaines très éloignés. Ses origines doivent être recherchées en partant de l'anthropologie, puisqu'elles sont étroitement liées aux croyances ancestrales et aux craintes ataviques de l'être humain. Mon étude se propose d'analyser les étapes et les éléments fondamentaux qui ont permis au non-mort d'exister depuis toujours et de s'adapter à chaque circonstance historique, géographique et culturelle. En particulier, en bâtissant un pont entre deux disciplines très éloignées, le folklore et le cinéma, je vise à cerner ce qui reste au cinéma de l'image du vampire archétype, dont les origines plongent dans les domaines de l'anthropologie et du folklore. "
The vampire is a recurring leitmotiv that can be found in differents ages and differents environments. His origins are connected to ancestral beliefs and human fears. The purpose of my study consiste in finding the archetypal vampire in modern vampire cinema

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Kuvita, Tetyana. "The Risk of Vampire Effect in Advertising." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-198231.

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The concept of vampire effect in advertising appears to be underresearched by marketing specialists. In the race for getting attention of target audience advertisers often use special attention-getting devices. This in turn exposes them to a higher risk of creating a vampire effect when the core message about the brand or a product is eaten up by such devices. Therefore this study provides deepeer insights into the vampire effect occurences. A deductive approach is used. First secondary literature review on preconditions of vampire effect occurrences and various types of vampire effect is covered. Primary data collection and analysis is performed next. This part is narrowed down to researching vampire effect risks when using celebrities as attention-getting device in printed advertisement. Research tools of this study include an eye-tracking device and a survey of 72 students from the University of Economics in Prague. The research concludes that a significantly higher risk of creating a vampire effect exists when using an unrelated attention-getting device. Marketers are advised to use related celebrities if choosing to stick to the attention-getting device approach. However, the concept of "relatedness" should be effectively pre-tested prior to advertising campaign start.

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Owen, Lauren Elizabeth Sarah. "Dracula's inky shadows : the vampire Gothic of writing." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12317/.

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Always a story about a story, the vampire tale is forever in dialogue with the past, conscious of its own status as a rewrite. This makes the vampire a figure onto which readers and authors can project ambivalence about writing – the gothic of living with texts. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) vividly illustrates this connection. The novel presents textual interactions as both dangerous and pleasurable. What is more, Dracula has accumulated significance through criticism and adaptation. These retellings tie the novel even more closely to the processes of writing and rewriting. This thesis will begin by examining Dracula’s gothic of reading and writing. After this follows a consideration of the vampire fiction preceding Stoker’s novel, beginning with the figure of the embodied author in early nineteenth-century works like John William Polidori’s The Vampyre’ (1819), and James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney, the Vampyre (1845-47). The thesis will then address the gothic of scientific and institutional language in the vampire fiction of the mid nineteenth-century, including Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ (1872). A return to the fin de siècle follows, with a consideration of degeneracy and art vampirism outside Dracula, and discussion of works including Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897) and George Sylvester Viereck’s The House of the Vampire (1907). The thesis will proceed to the twentieth century, studying the gothic interplay of film and literature in works like F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922). It will then trace the resemblance between Victorians and their modern adapters, suggesting that re-imaginings of Dracula, like Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), betray an affinity between Victorians and the ‘enlightened’ twentieth century. The thesis will conclude by examining the vampire as a figure of intertextuality, and considering the way in which postmodern vampires like those of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) acknowledge that their world is comprised of other texts. Buffy offers the possibility that the world shaped by narratives may also be rewritten, with results that can be either terrifying or liberating.

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Galinier, Emmanuelle. "L'humanisation progressive d’une figure de mythe : le vampire." Toulouse 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOU20097.

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La première partie de la thèse est consacrée à l’origine de la figure du vampire. Ses fondements, son origine, issues des croyances populaires, et sa confrontation avec la religion, ainsi que son avènement en tant que figure de mythe moderne en littérature et au cinéma y sont analysés. La deuxième partie de la thèse traite de l’image du vampire, ainsi que de son évolution progressive dans les médiums artistiques que sont le roman et le film. On y aborde également la narration au sein de l’œuvre fantastique, particulièrement d’un point de vue visuel et les métamorphoses qu’elle engendre. La dernière partie s’attache à décrire la figure du vampire en tant que mythe contemporain humanisé, dans deux films devenus des classiques du genre : Bram Stoker’s Dracula de Francis Ford Coppola et Entretien avec un vampire de Neil Jordan
The first part is devoted to the origin of the figure of the vampire. Its roots, its origin in people’s beliefs and its confrontation to religion, it’s an analyses as well as its evolution into a modern myth figure in literature and in cinema. The second part deals with the vampire’s image and with its gradual evolution in two artistic media : the novel and the film. We also discuss the narration within a fantastic work, especially from a visual point of view and through the transformations it causes. The last part describes the vampire’s figure as a contemporary humanized myth in two films that have become classics : Bram Stoker’s Dracula by F. F. Coppola and Interview With the Vampire by Neil Jordan

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Samuelsson, Victoria. "What Manner of Man is This? The Depiction of Vampire Folklore in Dracula and Fangland." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77495.

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The vampire figure is very much a part of the literary landscape of today, and has been so for the last 200 years. The vampire has not always appeared as it does today, as the rich, urbane gentleman, but has its origins in old folklore legends. The idea that the vampire figure has changed over the course of history is not new, but instead of discussing the phenomena influencing, and changing, the vampire motif, this essay will try to shed light on the aspects of the folklore vampire that are still part of the vampire of today. By applying the theory of folklorism (folklore not in its original context, but rather the imitation of popular themes by another social class, or the creation of folklore for purposes outside the established tradition), presented by Hans Moser and Hermann Bausinger among others, this essay attempts to prove that the modern vampire is in fact a folklorism of the old folklore legends. The essay examines the more recent incarnation of the vampire, the literary vampire who emerged during the 18th and 19th century, with the intent to prove that, while it is different from its origin, it has several features in common with its ancestry as well. To show this, examples from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and the more recent novel Fangland (2007) by John Marks have been chosen to serve as basis for the analysis. Both novels clearly show instances where folklore has been brought into the narrative as a way to define and depict the vampire.

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Anttonen, Ramona. "The Savage and the Gentleman : A Comparative Analysis of Two Vampire Characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-535.

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The creatures known as vampires have inspired authors for several hundred years. These beings are stereotypically described as belonging to a “nocturnal species” who live “in shadows” and drink “our lives in secrecy” (Auerbach 1). However, they have by now appeared so often in literary works, and in so many different shapes and sizes, that they are much too nuanced to be called ‘stereotypes.’

This essay will make a historical comparison between two fictional vampires, one hundred years apart, in order to show that a change has taken place when it comes to how vampires as fictional characters have been portrayed in terms of their appearance, their psychology, and their roles in society. The first novel chosen is, for obvious reasons, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It was written at the turn of the nineteenth century by a male author and is probably the first novel that comes into mind when the word vampire is mentioned. The second novel, The Vampire Lestat, was written almost a century later, in 1986, by a female author, who, to readers of vampire fiction, is a worthy successor of Stoker. Her name is Anne Rice, best known for her debut novel Interview with the Vampire (1976).

The two novels are naturally chosen because of their similarities, but perhaps even more so because of their differences. Dracula is a typically Victorian Gothic novel, which is set in the remote mountains of Transylvania, and in the modern capital London, contemporary to when the novel was published. It is written in epistolary form but never allows for the main character, Count Dracula, to defend or explain himself and his actions in a first-person narrative.

The Vampire Lestat, on the other hand, is a Neo-Gothic novel that focus less on conventional Gothic elements, for example gloomy settings, and more on the psychological aspects of what it is like to actually be a vampire. Unlike Dracula, it is the main character’s fictional autobiography in which he recalls his life in France, his transformation into a vampire, and his current career in the United States as a famous rock star. Nina Auerbach calls it “a series of temporal regressions in which Lestat . . . embarks on a backward quest out of the knowable world” (172).

Both novels used in this analysis are thus part of the Gothic genre, one being a Victorian Gothic and the other Neo-Gothic, but there are significant differences between the two. I will investigate how these differences reveal themselves when it comes to setting and plot. However, the novels are similar in that they present two male vampires who belong to the nobility and have lived on through the centuries. The vampires both want to be where the power is, which means, in the case of Stoker’s Dracula, that he tries to conquer nineteenth-century London and seduce a young intelligent woman named Mina. Lestat, on the other hand, wants to become a famous twentieth-century rock star in the United States and simply have a good time while being a vampire (Auerbach 6).

The aim of this essay is to investigate what is typical of the genres that the two novels belong to and determine what has changed in the vampires’ physical appearance, their manners and their ability to adapt to modern society. In the first section of the essay I will give a description of the typical elements of the Gothic and the Neo-Gothic genres and then compare them in order to make a generic description of the two novels, Dracula and The Vampire Lestat. Vampire fiction will be treated as a sub-genre to the Gothic genre. In the succeeding two sections I will make comparative analyses of the two novels, particularly of the main characters, in order to describe the similarities and differences between the two and study how the vampire character has changed during the last century. Much of the discussion, especially regarding Dracula, will be based on Cesare Lombroso’s concept of the ‘criminal man,’ and various modern scholars’ opinion that the vampire is seen as an outcast and a threat to society.

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Chandler, Anthony N. "Vampires incorporated : self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28234.

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This thesis examines the use of orality as a means to self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The main contention of this thesis is that within the Vampire Chronicles orality defines the self through incorporation, and that the bodily incorporation of food through a sexual consumption leads the vampire to naturally evolve a sense of who he or she is at any given moment in time. It is in this manner that this article discusses how the body, sexuality, food, and the possession of financial capital define and limit the individual's notion of self.

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Chandler, Anthony N. "Vampires incorporated, self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0021/MQ37197.pdf.

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Roberson, Jessica Anne. "BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA: THE HORROR OF A HISTORICAL VAMPIRE." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192953.

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Prinz, Kristin Taylor. "Changing the Vampire Tradition: The Vampires of Darren Shan." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579332.

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This paper will explore the ways in which the Cirque du Freak series by Darren Shan both follows and deviates from the older vampire tradition that is seen in books such as The Vampyre, Dracula, Varney the Vampire, Carmilla, and Interview the Vampire. It will also look at the way the changes he made to the vampire tradition reflect the deep conflicts in modern western culture, especially the social interactions and relationships most relevant to his teenage readers, such as problems that involve gender roles, family relationships, and finding one's place in society. Finally, this paper will examine the way other modern day young-adult vampire novels reflect conflicts differently than Shan's novels.

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Nathanson, Shelby. "Bite Me: Sadomasochistic Gender Relations in Contemporary Vampire Literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1629.

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While the term sadomasochism might conjure cursory images of whips, chains, and leather-clad fetishists, this thesis delves deeper into sadomasochistic theory to analyze dynamics of power and powerlessness represented by a chosen sample of literary relationships. Using two contemporary works of vampire literature—Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series—I examine how power is structured by and between male and female characters (and vampires and humans), and particularly emphasize the patriarchal messages these works' regressive sexual politics engender. Psychoanalysis and feminist theory are employed to support my overarching argument following the gendered dynamics of male sadism and female masochism (and vampire sadism and human masochism), as this dyad reflects men's and women's "normalized" roles of power and powerlessness, respectively, in today's society. Sadomasochistic relationships as depicted in this literature are created through mutual contracts or, what I refer to as, sociocultural sadomasochism to reflect the gendered power imbalances inherent in patriarchy. By concluding with readers' responses to these franchises, this thesis further attempts to determine why such unequal and oppressive relationships are desirable. Since vampires as Gothic figures embody what specific cultures dread yet desire, this literature possesses frightening implications—gender roles are conservative and masculinity is privileged in fiction and, by extension, in twenty-first-century American culture.
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Plumb, Jane. "Dark angels : a study of Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36264/.

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The international success of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and the release of the film Interview with the Vampire (based on her novel of the same name) has fueled an explosion of interest in the vampire genre, resulting in further incarnations of the vampire story in fiction and film. This study attempts to analyse Rice's development of the vampire narrative in relation to a body of novels and short stories which comprise a recognizable genre. The first chapter has three sections: an Introduction comprising a comparison between the Chronicles and Bram Stoker's Dracula,- a study of the Chronicles as a metaphor for homoeroticism and AIDS; and a study of the psychoanalytic aspects of vampirism linked with the concept of Rice's vampire as a Sadean hero. The second chapter has two sections: an analysis of Rice's representations of femininiiy; and a study of the myths of womanhood employed in the novels, together with the origins of these myths. The third chapter has two sections: a focus on the complex self-conscious and moral life of Rice's vampires in relation to contemporary consciousness and subjectivity; and a comparison of Rice's treatment of genre, historical romance and erotica with the vampire narratives of her contemporaries. The fourth and concluding chapter is a summary of Rice's treatment of genre, gender and religion in relation to evolving feminist, cultural and psychoanalytic debates, including reference to material from her other novels. In her self-conscious appropriation of the vampire tradition, Rice introduces a wider scope to the formulaic elements of the gothic genre, interweaving different genres with the gothic horror story. Her innovative approach to the vampire novel, with its complexity of intermingling issues, leaves many unanswered questions. It is the unresolved nature of the contradictions and paradoxes intrinsic to Rice's work that disturb and generate further debate.

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Miller, Catriona. "Blood spirits : a Jungian approach to the vampire myth." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1774.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore the vampire motif using the psychological framework of C. G. Jung, which suggests that the vampire is an expression of archetypal contents from the collective unconscious, and that vampire narratives are variations on the theme of Self. Having established the reasons why analytical psychology is a particularly suitable approach for investigating this kind of popular phenomenon, the examination of the vampire motif falls into three main areas. Dicounters with Shadow Vampires looks at vampires which display characteristics particularly associated with the shadow archetype. This section begins with an examination of the vampire in folklore, with particular attention to the Eastern European vampire, making a careful distinction between the vampire of folklote and the later vampire of Romantic literature. A modern example of this kind of vampire imagery is explored in the film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors (1922). Encounters With Animus Vampires is a three part investigation of the vampire as an expression of the contrasexual archetype. The first, Creation: Origins qf the Modern Pampire, concentrates on the male vampire created by the Romantics. The second, Evohilion: Dracula the Novel, is a Jungian reading of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The third, Elaboration: Dracula the Movies, shows how the novel has been altered in the numerous film versions of that novel in a way which relates very closely to the prevailing culture of the time. Underworld Quests, is a two part examination of the quest'myth structures of more recent vampire films: The Lost Bgys and Near Dar (both from 1987) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). These are examples which particularly foreground this structure and where vampires, as contents from the unconscious, are read as heralding a new ofientation or possibility for the mortal hero.

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Bryan, Megan. "Mutations of the vampire motif in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18100/.

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This thesis seeks to explore the figure of the vampire in its specific historical contexts throughout the nineteenth century. It is an in-depth look at the social and cultural events which inspired literary appearances of the vampire from its oral beginnings in the eighteenth century and through each decade of the nineteenth century. It discusses how specific historical events and personal experiences of the authors of vampire fiction might have impacted the presentation of the vampire in those decades. It also details the shifting attributes of what constitutes a vampire, and how the motif is transmitted in terms of literary format. Broadly, it seeks to demonstrate that there is no set vampire canon, and no singular vampire figure. The ultimate aim of this thesis is to challenge received notions about the vampire, to chart its transformations, and thereby to attend to the complexity of a motif being constantly reworked in new historical and cultural contexts.

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Valls, de Gomis Estelle. "Le vampire au fil des siècles : docimasie d'un mythe." Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20048.

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Cette thèse explore les différentes facettes du mythe du vampire, en commençant par ses prémices dans les domaines de la mythologie et de la religion, pour passer par ses soi-disant incarnations historiques et enfin arriver à son développement en littérature, puis dans les médias et les diverses formes d'art que sont le cinéma, la peinture, la bande dessinée et la musique. Dans le domaine littéraire, plusieurs oeuvres majeures sont étudiées, telles que le Dracula de Bram Stoker et le Lestat d'Anne Rice, entre autres, mais également des ouvrages non vampiriques pouvant donner un autre éclairage sur l'étude du mythe, tels que, par exemple, Wuthering Heights d'Emily Bronte͏̈ et The Picture of Dorian Gray d'Oscar Wilde. L'importance des lieux dans le vampirisme et les motifs récurrents sont abordés. Et après un bref passage par le vampire en psychanalyse et en criminologie, c'est la fascination pour le mythe et sa dissémination à travers la publicité, le cinéma et l'art pictural notamment qui sont évoquées
Exploring the various facets of the myth of the vampire, first throughout mythology and religion, then through his so-called historical embodiments, we finally reach the study of its development in literature, in the media and in various forms of culture such as cinema, art, comics and music. Several major works are studied as regards the literary domain, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's Lestat, among others, but also non-vampiric novels such as, for example, Emily Bronte͏̈'s Wuthering Heights or Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, that will shed a different light on the study of the vampire myth. The importance of places in vampirism, and the recurrent themes are evoked. And after a quick survey of the vampire in psychoanalysis and criminology, it is the fascination for the myth and its dissemination through advertisement, cinema and pictorial art, among others, which are studied

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Mellins, Maria. "Fashioning the vampire : issues of dress and identity performance within the female vampire fan community in both online and face-to-face social contexts." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.685070.

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Arseneault, Sébastien. "L'incarnation du mythe du vampire, les personnes vampiriques à Montréal." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0021/MQ49074.pdf.

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Valls, de Gomis Estelle. "Le vampire au fil des siècles : enquête autour d'un mythe /." Coudray-Macouard : Cheminements, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400892612.

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Williams, Lauren E. "Visualizing the Vampire: Carmilla (1872) and the Portrayal of Desire." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1242582788.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.
Advisor: Kimberly Paice. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 27, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: vampires; Carmilla; art cinema; Lamia; Lilith; Blood and Roses; desire; lesbian vampires. Includes bibliographical references.

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Fowler, Lauren N. "Southerner as Other: Exploring Regional Identity through the Southern Vampire." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2495.

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Since its conception in folklore and superstition, the vampire has had an innate ability to reflect the environment of the culture that creates it. Each manifestation of this being is entirely unique to the culture in which it is born. The vampire of the American South is no exception to this idea. As a region with a particularly tumultuous history, the South has been molded by many cultural influences. Religion, sexuality, and race are some of the most notable factors to have impacted the area. Many Southern authors writing vampire fiction explore the fears, stereotypes, and prejudices of the culture with the vampire characters as a means to represent and critique Southern identity. Vampires in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls, Scott Nicholson’s They Hunger, Alan Ball’s True Blood, and Patrick Lussier’s Dracula 2000 all reveal something about the culture of the South.

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Bergner, Laura. "Viral communities in vampire bats : geographical variation and ecological drivers." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30811/.

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Microbial communities play important roles in organismal and ecosystem health. High throughput sequencing has revolutionized our understanding of host-associated microbial communities, but the viral component of these communities remains poorly characterized relative to microbes such as bacteria, particularly in non-human hosts. This knowledge gap has implications for global health, as viruses originating in wildlife are responsible for recent disease outbreaks in humans and domestic animals. Although studies have identified factors differentiating viral communities between species, we have little understanding of the variability of viral communities within species. Comparative studies of viral communities are therefore necessary to characterize novel taxa and to evaluate the ecological factors influencing intraspecific viral diversity and distribution. Bats are recognized as “special” reservoirs for viruses because they are associated with diverse viral communities and display deep evolutionary relationships with individual viral taxa. Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) represent a particularly interesting system in which to investigate viral communities, as they are obligate blood feeders that interact ecologically with many different host species, providing opportunities for the acquisition of diverse viruses. The overall objective of this thesis was to advance our understanding of intraspecific wildlife-associated viral communities using an established field network of common vampire bat colonies across Peru. Specifically, I developed a novel method for comparative viral community studies, characterized the viral communities of vampire bats, and examined the ecological correlates of vampire bat viral diversity across Peru. Metagenomic sequencing is a promising technique for comparative studies of viral communities in wildlife, but there is a need to first develop standardized methods that can be applied to samples collected in the field. In Chapter 2 I developed a shotgun metagenomic sequencing approach to characterizing viral communities from non-invasive samples. Specifically, I optimized extraction and sequencing protocols using fecal and oropharyngeal swabs collected from common vampire bats in Peru. Two preliminary sequencing runs were performed, the results of which motivated four pilot studies in which I tested how different storage media, nucleic acid extraction procedures, and enrichment steps affect the viral community detected. Metagenomic sequencing revealed viral contamination of fetal bovine serum, a component of viral transport medium, suggesting that swabs should be stored in RNALater or another non-biological medium. Extraction and qPCR tests were performed on swabs inoculated with known concentrations of virus, which revealed that nucleic acid should be directly extracted from swabs rather than from supernatant or pelleted material. Metagenomic sequencing of paired samples was used to test enrichment by ribosomal RNA depletion and light DNAse treatment, which both reduced host and bacterial nucleic acid in samples and improved virus detection. A bioinformatic pipeline was developed specifically for processing vampire bat shotgun viral metagenomic data. Finally, the optimized protocol was applied to twelve pooled samples from seven localities in Peru, and read subsampling demonstrated that the viral communities detected were consistent at commonly attained depths of sequencing. The protocol developed in this chapter enables minimally biased comparative viral community studies in non-invasive samples collected from wildlife. Having a detailed understanding of viral diversity in key wildlife hosts is an important first step in evaluating the risk of zoonotic disease emergence, but we still lack a holistic view of viral communities in many species including vampire bats. In Chapter 3, I used the metagenomic sequencing protocol developed in Chapter 2 to thoroughly characterize viral communities in the saliva and feces of vampire bats captured across Peru. Viruses were detected from a range of natural host groups including vertebrate-associated taxa that were potentially infecting vampire bats, bacteriophages associated with gut bacteria, and plant- or insect-infecting viruses potentially acquired from the environment. There were broad differences between fecal and saliva viral communities, showing evidence of body habitat compartmentalization. Overall, results established that vampire bat viral communities differ between body habitats and suggested that, for the vertebrate-infecting families analyzed, novel viruses mostly fall within bat-specific clades, without evidence of livestock or humans acting as a major source of viral diversity in vampire bats. Interspecific differences in ecological and life history traits are known to impact viral richness in bats, but the factors structuring viral communities within bat species are less well understood. In Chapter 4, I examined the spatial, demographic and environmental correlates of intraspecific viral diversity in vampire bats. Three measures of viral diversity were calculated at the colony level: richness, a novel measure of taxonomic diversity, and community composition. Generalized linear models were then used to test the effects of broad scale and local ecological variables on saliva and fecal viral diversity. The results showed for the first time that ecological variables can influence intraspecific viral diversity. In summary, the work presented in this thesis advances our understanding of wildlife-associated viral communities in an ecologically important bat host. Future directions in comparative wildlife viral metagenomics, as discussed in Chapter 5, will include exploring the determinants of viral communities across host species, environments and time.

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Davis, Kathy S. "Sympathy for the devil : female authorship and the literary vampire." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1234459639.

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Hobbs, Michelle. "Reshaping the archetype, mythmaking and matriarchy in Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23144.pdf.

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Ebert, Nadine [Verfasser]. "Das Jahrhundert der Vampire : Deutschsprachige Vampirfiktionen des 20. Jahrhunderts / Nadine Ebert." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1218530502/34.

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Farghaly, Nadine. "Patriarchy Strikes Back: Power and Perception In Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1241804608.

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Choyke, Kelly Lynn. "Domesticating the Vampire: An LGBTQ Audience Reception Study of True Blood." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1020.

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This is an ethnographic audience reception study of True Blood. LGBTQ fans of True Blood were interviewed in order to understand their opinions about True Blood, what makes it queer, and whether the representations are positive or negative. Overall, the subjects found the sexual fluidity of the vampires in True Blood to be queer because they felt it transcended human sexuality. As for the representations of gay and lesbian characters, they were found to be both negative and positive, but the inclusion of such characters is what is most important. I argue that the sexual fluidity of the vampires on True Blood is not queer, and True Blood is not queer, for queer does not transcend the binary system upon which sexuality is predicated.

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Boisvert, Mélissa. "Le vampire comme figure du double ; suivi de "L'enquête de 1888"." Thèse, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2012. http://depot-e.uqtr.ca/2675/1/030295733.pdf.

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Palfi, Benike. "From demon to god : the evolution of the vampire in literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11162.

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Vampires may be centuries-old mythological creatures, but depictions thereof abound in our modern society in literature, film, and television. The prevalence of the vampire is related to its enormous symbolic power to reflect socio-cultural conditions of society at the time of its creation, which not only determines how the vampire figure has changed within modern literary history, but also makes it possible to pinpoint certain social conditions influencing this change. The aspects of religion and capitalism, and, directly associated with this, consumerism, emerge as particularly relevant when analysing the changes of the fictional vampire, as they are both effective measures of socio-cultural circumstances and have been associated with the vampire figure - in terms of its creation, nature, and specific characteristics - in the history of mythology and literature. It is through tracing the themes of religion and capitalism within primary vampire texts at key moments in history that a greater understanding of how and why the vampire figure has changed may be gained.

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