Tag Archives: Twilight

Buffyology Lessons in the Academy: Buffy V Shakespeare?

Given we had some papers on Buffy at the original Open Graves, Open Minds conference in 2010 and that she made an appearance in both the OGOM book and the special issue of Gothic Studies on vampires (and that we … Continue reading

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The Wild Evolution of Vampires, From Bram Stoker to Dracula Untold

Devon Maloney gives a brisk but useful survey of the changes in the image of the literary and cinematic vampire.

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Review of Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon

Dr Rebecca Williams, Lecturer in Communication, Culture and Media Studies at the University of South Wales and a contributor to the OGOM special issue of Gothic Studies, reviews an interesting new collection of essays on the Twilight films: Screening Twilight: … Continue reading

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Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance, Sunderland, 30 October 2014

I will be giving my talk, ‘Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance’ along with Dr Alison Younger at the University of Sunderland’s Spectral Visions Halloween event: ‘University of Sunderland Spectral Visions Our Halloween extravaganza has been confirmed! Come … Continue reading

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The Wild Evolution of Vampires, From Bram Stoker to Dracula Untold

A brief sketch of vampires in film and TV from Carmilla to Dracula Untold.

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Embracing the YA Albatross: YA Fiction in the Academy

I  mentioned  Philip Pullman’s carnegie medal speech in my first YA post and it seems apt to return to it here in the wake of renewed criticism of YA fiction in universities. I was interested to read Kaja’s post which … Continue reading

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Some interesting YA and the Gothic texts …

Apologies for the least inspired title for a post ever hopefully the ellipsis adds a sense of anticipation. (I fear it doesn’t). During my trawls of the internet, in which I use Twitter and Google Alerts like a whale uses … Continue reading

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The Sparkly Vampire Returns

It appears that the Twilight Saga will be returning to our screen in the form of a series of short films to be released on Facebook – so less big screen, more mini-screen. Each short film will deal with one of the … Continue reading

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The Literary Lycanthrope, or, How I Came to Love the Wolf

This post is written with the modest aim of introducing myself and what I study. So, hello, I am Kaja. As the introductory post says I am one of two PhD research students who are funded by the University of … Continue reading

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