Vampire Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Literature Review #1

Citation
Kane, Tim. The Changing Vampire of Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Growth of a Genre‬. McFarland and Company Inc. Publishers. 2006.Print.
Summary
The book analyzes the seventy years long history of vampire films. He divided the films in cycles, according to the transformations suffered by the vampire narrative in the course of the time. Thus, the first is the Malignant Cycle, from 193 to 1948 .This cycle includes films in which Dracula is perceived as the antagonist and the predatory function dominates the composition. In films produced during the Erotic Cycle, which comprises films produced ...

Literature Review #2

Citation
Knewitz, Simone. “God Hates Fangs? Mortality, Ideology, and the Domesticated Vampire”. Collision of Realities: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe. Eds. Lars Schmeink and Astrid Boger. Boston and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012. Print.
Summary
In this paper, the author looks at the way in which the vampire has evolved as a social creature in the past decades. In particular, the author looks at the television program “True Blood”, in which vampires have stopped drinking blood and rely instead on a synthetic type of blood, thus gaining access to the society. The author shows that by looking ...

When Blood is The Path

In every literary work, certain character has its place and role given by the author. Main characters are usually the easiest ones to read and understand their meaning for the narration and author's attitude to them. On the other hand, secondary characters serve a different purpose. They are often used to unravel depth of main heroes' characters and mode of actions. On the other hand, sometimes the meaning of secondary characters and the reason why author pays attention to them might be not evident at all. This is the case of Dr. Seward's patient Renfield in Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
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My impression of the novel is a book capable of inducing the feeling of eroticism, sexual energy, danger, and suspense all at the same time. In my view, the genre of the novel can best be described as an erotic thriller. The novel present a strange intermixing of humans and other supernatural beings. Indeed, the writer follows the modern tradition of presenting vampires as a romantic, erotic and elegant species rather than some demonic creature. The character of Sookie Stackhouse is indeed a very intricate one the more I read about her and the more I become familiar with her personality the more ...