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The Vampire Diaries: ‘hot vampires with a conflicting love interest’ - based on the popular novel series written by L.J Smith (Williams). This hour-long, romance-fantasy-drama program would air on The CW network at 8:00 (ET) following the life of a pretty, popular teenage girl who is torn between the love of two handsome, mysterious, soul-thirsty vampires shortly after facing the death of her parents (Pilot; TVCalendar).
Summary
The Vampire Diaries takes place in the fictional small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia following the life of a 17-year-old high school student named Elena Gilbert, and her 15-year-old brother Jeremy as they struggle to emotionally deal with the recent car accident that killed their parents. Elena’s life will be forever changed after meeting and falling in love with a new handsome and mysterious but seemingly peculiar classmate, Stefan Salvatore. What she does not yet know about her new love interest is that he is actually a 161-year-old vampire who continuously craves blood (Pilot). Tension grows when Stefan begins falling in love with Elena and suddenly his twisted vampire brother, Damon appears and desperately desires Elena and her soul for himself. As Elena becomes increasingly
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Rebecca Williams, argues that the program provides no easy answer to determine if it can be considered ‘quality teen TV’, ‘teen/horror’, or ‘quality horror’ Williams finds that The Vampire Diaries may be somewhere in between Twilight and (a presumably better standard) HBO’s True Blood in terms of quality. This middle position is earned based on it being more “adult” than Twilight, and being a more authentic “vampire horror tale” (Williams). Finally, Williams concludes that The Vampire Diaries successfully draws upon and plays with existing tropes while adding its own unique selling points, and uses the supernatural as a backdrop for deeper stories of relationships, much like the successful Buffy the Vampire
These rules are also applied in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and some others are devised in order to enhance storylines. This would associate Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the horror genre, although there is more to the show than vampires: there are situations involving teenage angst (especially in the given episode, because it deals with the consequences of Buffy running away from home). Some people have likened Buffy the Vampire Slayer to a hybrid of Dracula and Beverly Hills 90210, which might be an accurate description ¡V the show does contain elements of a horror movie and tries to include situations experienced in a teenage soap (the characters attend high-school and experience friendship and love).
In the famous novel and movie series, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, an average teenage girl, Bella Swan, is forced to move from Arizona (where she lived with her mother) to Washington to start an almost new life with her father. She attends a small-town high school with mostly average people, besides one family, the Cullens. As Bella and Edward Cullen get closer, she uncovers a deep secret about him and his family. Their relationship faces many hard challenges and conflicts as the story develops. Both the novel and movie share very similar storylines, however, differ in many ways. From themes to author’s craft, or to relationships, these important parts of the story highlight the significant differences and similarities of Twilight.
“My revenge has just begun! I spread it over centuries and time is on my side”(Stoker 366). Nearly 200 years later, 18th-century gothic novels still influence modern-day Gothic literature. Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula is highly influential in regards to modern-day Gothic literature and films. The Twilight Saga, written by Stephanie Meyers and directed by Catherine Hardwicke, is a romance series about a human girl that falls in love with a vampire named Edward. Eventually, the human love interest, Bella, becomes a vampire and the two live on together forever. The Vampire Diaries television series, written by Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson, is about a town overrun by people with secret immortal lives, such as being a werewolf or vampire. There are
The Vampire Diaries set in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, a town with supernatural history since its settlement of migrants from New England in the late 19th century. It follows the life of Elena Gilbert, a teenage girl who has just lost both parents in a car accident, as she falls in love with an 162-year-old vampire named Stefan Salvatore. Their relationship becomes increasingly complicated as Stefan's mysterious older brother Damon Salvatore returns, with a
After analyzing The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth is the ideal vampiric figure, supporting Thomas Foster’s perspective about vampirism from his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor. In fact, Roger Chillingworth, presents many instances of how vampires might act and appear in literature. Even though he is not a literal vampire, it does not
Bohn, Michelle L. “Shadow of the Vampire: Understanding the Transformations of an Icon in Pop Culture”. Texas State University College; Mitte Honors Program. 2007.
After reading the text, it would seem elementary to identify the vampire, Carmilla as a
Today, love, sex and romance are three main topics that presented in media as main themes discuss in contemporary popular culture. Social media is important in shaping audience value about feminism through the framework of contemporary media like films, magazines, plays, advertisements, TV shows, graphic novels, etc. The television show “Sex and the City” incorporates “pop feminism” that influences many lives of women. Sex and the City is originally talking about four single thirty-something women living in Manhattan. They are coming to New York in order to seek “love and labels” (Sex and the City). The main theme of Sex and the City is concentrating on contemporary American woman’s conception of sex, love, and romance. As we learned from lecture, sex, love, and romance have a history; they are different in different cultures; they are shaped by gender, class, race, ethnicity, nation, ability, and other differences (Lecture Notes). Sex and the City is focusing on modern American woman’s experiences and their thinks with sex, love, and romance. The four main women characters in Sex and the City represent diversity of gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, age, able-bodiedness through their different experience and expectations of their life (Lecture Notes). Sex and the City represents that the feminism notions of sex, love, and romance are socially constructed, and this social construction of sex, love and romance are featured in these female characters’ personalities.
True Blood is a new television series in many centuries of attempting to capitalize on Vampires. Based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels, these stories have been successful in print and now television. Vampires films have always been in abundance in entertainment media. Some are exceptionally well composed and timeless. Others are mediocre and ridiculous. The success of True Blood is based upon the societal interest in vampires, the well written script, and the exceptional cast of the film.
When the word “vampire” comes to mind, people think of the traditional pale-faced, malicious bloodsuckers, sporting a cape and killing people when they’re sleeping. Wrong! Nowadays, the image of a vampire is a handsome, polite, and loving person who protects humans. The new cultural phenomenon Twilight is building a new degrading image for vampires that slaps the face of all previous authors, directors, writers, etc. who contributed to giving the monster its unique image in the past.
“Saturday is a day for torturing people,” Klaus Mikaelson, who is certainly a unique character, once stated. Klaus is a vampire in The Originals, who has certainly changed the face of supernatural media. When one thinks of power, witches and vampires, such as Klaus Mikaelson, are both thought of. Why? Magic and blood are both linked to power. These two topics have greatly influenced the world of mythology for as long as superstition has been around. The modern world now is surrounded by new supernatural aspects, as seen in shows such as Charmed and The Originals. Charmed and The Originals are related in the sense that they have supernatural characters, an emphasis on family values, and they show the endeavor between good and evil.
... It takes place over a two hundred year span, showing how a vampire remains hidden. It displays how humans are viewed from a vampire’s eyes and how vampires view each other. This series was such a phenomenon because it is from the vampire’s point of view and shows all of the good and bad things about being a vampire. It also exhibits how a vampire feels about living for eternity.
Williams, Ann, ed. Three Vampire Tales: Complete Texts with Introduction. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2003. Print.
from human to vampire. In the series, the couple express and undying, eternal love for each other
The critical material on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in print at least (see here the Slayage online journal), is expanding but currently somewhat limited. However, as a general rule two tendencies emerge. The first is to treat some self-contained aspect of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as an ideological work. Such analyses concentrate upon the encoded more or less implicitly pre-determined messages that the text transmits. Certainly some ideological responses are definitely triggered by Buffy and I will briefly make reference to two critical examples. Brian Wall and Michael Zyrd adopt a Marxist master frame of analysis to determine the world historical content of Buffy.