Vampires

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This paper examines how the immortality of a vampire is just one of a number of key features appearing consistently throughout example texts of this enduring sub-genre and how this eternal life seems to have translated itself into popular cinematic immortality, as the vampire has been the focus of film-makers creative endeavors almost since the introduction of cinema. It attempts to shed light on this phenomenon and unearth the secret behind the eternal life of these undead movie stars who have gripped the imagination of generations of audiences and look no nearer to loosening their hold today. It examines a number of texts and theories, offering a comparative analysis between both classical and post-classical versions, as well as identifying the variations within the periods themselves.

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"Throughout the history of vampire cinema hundreds of films have featured the ubiquitous blood-sucker although it is nigh-impossible to discover amongst them films which contain more than a handful of thematic or stylistic similarities. Nosferatu, for example, has a strikingly different visual style to even the 1931 Browning and Lugosi adaptation. Max Schrek's Count Orlock is much more rodent-like in his appearance than the creepy but still dapper Dracula. The visual differences don't end there. The expressionist influence in Nosferatu is unmistakable, with the now legendary shadow of the vampire ascending the stairs in Nosferatu a significant example of the lighting style employed."

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