What are some of the reasons for the changing representation of ‘The Vampire’.
Where are you going? – Change in genre
Change in audience – fandom
Vampire evolves for era
How can the vampire evolve more – what is next?
Box Office Figures
Items 1,2,3 & 4.
Twilight (2008)
Franchise – book to film adaption – link to Bram Stoker’s Dracula – why is this so popular?
Popularity – teenage girls
Budget – success supported by box office
Item 11, 19, 14 13.
Audience Appeal – why do the audience love it so much – how the audience changed since Nosferatu
Nosferatu (1922)
Origins of the vampire myth
Refer to item 7 – horror reader
How have people received this film? – reviews
Budget compared to Twilight.
Let the right on in (2008)
How is the vampire represented around the world
Item 22 Item 25 Mention of folklore
The Lost Boys (1987)
Item 22 – Every age has the vampire it needs.
Representation has changed – from women being victims – link to Dracula – women being vampires.
Item 24 – Twilight the franchise that ate feminism.
How Hollywood grabs the new found audience – good looking actors
Audience – used to be horror fans
Why is the genre so popular?
Box Office comparison from Nosferatu to twilight.
What is next?
How can the vampire evolve?
Will it fully lose its horror audience?
Vampire – franchise – just for money
Item 28 – why they bite 2008
Let me in 2010
Stuck on remakes?
