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Genevieve Valentine, ‘How the vampire became film’s most feminist monster’
A fascinating essay by Genevieve Valentine on the shifting nature of the powerful and ambivalent female vampire in cinema.
In the Open Graves, Open Minds Project, we unearthed depictions of the vampire and the undead in literature, art, and other media, before embracing shapeshifters and other supernatural beings and their worlds. OGOM opens up questions concerning genre, gender, hybridity, cultural change, and other realms. The Project extends to all narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, the fabulous, and the magical.
