Horror and Vampires and What They Say About Us
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Hearing Professor Benavides’s lecture made me remember why I love the horror genre and it’s ability to jam-pack current socio-political and economic issues under masks of entertainment. As kids, my best friend and I would wait for $.99 Wednesdays to run to the corner video store and get a new horror film. From Halloween to […]
Horror and Vampires and What They Say About Us
Tags: horror, Hugo Benavides, vampires
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Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi (I wrote this on Saturday night, but couldn’t post it due to a lack of internet access) I’m writing this blog post from Rye, New York, home to Lunacon – a science fiction/fantasy convention that I’ve attended almost every year since I was an infant. With Professor Benavides’ talk on Vampires […]
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Tags: fantasy, lunacon, porn, science fiction, sexuality, vampires, women
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Vampire, Sexy Scapegoat
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Professor Bendavides’ talk on vampires and sexuality verbalized and intellectualized all those things that swim under the surface of seemingly mindless entertainment. The vampire is used to talk about otherwise unbreachable topics in the pop culture medium. The idea of linking fear and desire is very interesting, and can be applied as a psychological concept […]
Vampire, Sexy Scapegoat
Tags: pop culture, social construction, vampires
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Blood+Race=Vampire Fun!
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
The speech was fun, informative — entertaining, too, because of all those film clips. It’s about time I become properly addicted to a TV show, and I think that show will be True Blood. I’m off to get a Netflix account. But before I lose myself in the joys of out-of-the-coffin vampires, a few of […]
Blood+Race=Vampire Fun!
Tags: race, social constructivism, vampires
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Are Vampires Incestuous?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Are Vampires Incestuous? The lecture on vampires and sexuality brought up some interesting questions about kinship and family systems in the vampire world. I’ve watched and read a lot of different stuff pertaining to vampires. And after vampires are “made” or “sired,” they sometimes refer to their lineage in family terms such as “mother” or […]
Are Vampires Incestuous?
Tags: biology, blood, family, incest, kinship, lineage, perversions, sex, vampires
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