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Soo Hun Yoon

Cornerstone – H5

Dr. Kyle Dickson

31st October, 2012

Research the “New-age” vampires if you dare!

1) Heldreth, Leonard G., and Mary Pharr.The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular, 1999. Print. Oct. 26, 2012.

This book has information on the appearance of vampires in modern literature and illustrating how the vampires have changed from the traditional Dracula to what many know today. It shows a trend on how literature has changed and is of great use to see the movement to a more modern vampire.

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2) Nelson, Elizabeth. “Abstinence Vs. Indulgence: How The New Ethical Vampire Reflects Our Monstrous Appetites.” Journal Of Jungian Scholarly Studies 6.2 (2010): 1-13. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 Oct. 2012.

“Abstinence Vs. Indulgence” an article written by Elizabeth Nelson as the title suggests, focuses on the idea of how the new-age “ethical” vampires reflect the monstrous appetite within us. In her article she tries to explain the rising fame of vampires and trying to giver her explanation for the rise in fame of these ethical vampires. Her take on this is that the desires deep within us that are hidden most of the times can be responsible for the attention these new age vampire gets. This article helps in answering the possible reasons why these new vampires are very craved for.

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3) Bacon, Simon. "Lost Boys The Infernal Youth Of The Cinematic Teenage Vampire." Thymos: Journal Of Boyhood Studies 5.2 (2011): 152-162. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 31 Oct. 2012.

This article take s a look at the definition and characteristics of boyhood in two different vampire film period; the 20th and 21st century. It takes a deeper look at what one views as boyhood and the characteristics the each type of vampire represent. It describes how vampires have changed from fierce, fearful male beings to romantic and gentlemanly vampires. Such trend would help to clearly make a timline map of the modifications of vampires from then to now.

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4) Mutch, Deborah. "Coming Out Of The Coffin: The Vampire And Transnationalism In The Twilight And Sookie Stackhouse Series." Critical Survey 23.2 (2011): 75-90. Academic Search Complete, Ebscohost. Web. 31 Oct. 2012.

This article relates the Twilight series and Sookie Stackhouse novels to the development and change in the Gothic genre and the rise of group and national identity. It discusses how the projection of a close knit group like atmosphere in both novels reflect the need of national or group identity rising in today’s society. It, in a way illustrates that such reflection could be a reason for the popularity of the vampires.

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5) Wilson, Natalie. Seduced by Twilight: the allure and contradictory messages of the popular saga. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2011. Print. 1 Nov. 2012.

This book discusses the variety of messages that the twilight series projects. Messages about love, romance, sex, and beauty are a few. It explores the different topics deeper and relates them to modern day cultural issues regarding race, class, gender and sexuality. The book mainly argues that the success of the Twilight series is attributed primarily to Meyer’s negotiation of cultural mores appealing to a large amount of audience. Such argument can be one of the reasons vampires these “post” vampires have gained so much popularity.

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6) Housel, Rebecca, and Jeremy Wisnewski.Twilight and philosophy: vampires, vegetarians, and the pursuit of immortality. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Print. 1 Nov. 2012.

This book tries to explain the book twilight from a philosophical viewpoint. It relates different aspects of the film to real life issues, cultures and other and explains in good detail why. It discusses subjects such as love, immortality, making hard decision and other subjects that make the film appealing to many audiences. This book helps discover the appeals of the “new-age” vampires and the struggles of reality that allows stronger connections with audience.

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7) Heit, Jamey. Vader, Voldemort and other villains: essays on evil in popular media. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2011. Print. 1 Nov. 2012.

This book discusses the theme of evil in modern day multimedia. In comprises of thirteen essays of which a couple discusses evil and twilight. It discusses the evil that is present in the plot of twilight and explains it in terms of good, bad, and ugly. It concludes that is it is a family romance story. This helps uncover different view of twilight based on the categorization of the characters by humanizing and making them more realistic.

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8) Abbott, Stacey. Celluloid vampires: life after death in the modern world. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Print. 1 Nov. 2012.

Are vampires unique or just one of us? This book answers that question. It explores how vampires how changed to embody modernity. It argues that vampires are more than just blood sucking species; there are even female vampires. It relates it to the culture and social climate of the modern day that influence such change. This provides a possible reason for the modernization of vampires.

9) Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. "Vampires, Vampires, Everywhere!." Phi Kappa Phi Forum 90.3 (2010): 4-5. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Nov. 2012.

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The writer of this article proposes six reasons as to why the vampires have gained so much popularity. Some of his points are vampires are more interesting than those who try to practice it, and they always “come back.” The obsession of today’s society is large enough to not be ignored. According to the author, vampires in a sense reflect modern day issues or present a corrected version that appeals to the viewers.

10) Heldreth, Leonard G. "Vampires In Film And Television." Journal Of Popular Film & Television 27.2 (1999): 2. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Nov. 2012.

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This article gives an introduction to the presence of vampires and their roles in films in the 20th century. It gives a good and brief knowledge of the vampires in the earlier days; “classical” vampires. It helps form a good base in going into research for this assignment.