It would be difficult to speak about contemporary views of vampires without considering the
effect of Meyer's Twilight saga. The story moved swiftly from print to film, so the black covers
of the original books are almost as familiar a sight as the soulful gaze of perhaps the most ...

Over the last decades, Bram Stoker's Dracula has been reworked and translated into film
versions-or at least provided inspiration for films-hundreds of times. Of the film versions
which refer to Stoker as an important inspiration, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's ...

Buffy Summers saw the light of night in 1992, exactly eighty years after a bald, rat-like
Nosferatu had crawled across the screen at the Berlin Marmorsaal des Zoo. Murnau's
version of Bram Stoker's novel set the stage for a cinematic myth that would continue to ...

Over twenty-five years ago, a number of people explored the role of gender in Dracula, 1
and many of those studies looked closely at Stoker's treatment of the New Woman, 2 arguing
specifically that the female vampires in Dracula are his way of responding to the growing ...

On 17 May 1954, the modern Civil Rights Movement in America experienced its first major
victory with the Supreme Court's ruling in the Brown vs. Board of Education case. This
landmark decision established that “the'separate but equal'argument for segregation was ...

The late nineteenth century, which witnessed the birth of Bram Stoker's vampire, was marked
by an unsettling feeling that the ordered world of Victorian values was irrevocably
disintegrating. Apprehensions about the progressive deterioration of national fitness ...