The Vampire, the Queer, and the Girl: Reflections on the Politics and Ethics of Immortality’s Gendering

Lau, Kimberly J.

doi:10.1086/698274

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“…The sexual-and gender-overtones are complex none the less. The connotations of a vampiric desire, which by nature entails no distinctions, and certainly not with respect to gender, express a clear 'queer' undercurrent in a broadly heteronormative culture (Haggerty 1998;Lau 2018). The ambivalence gains its purchase on an even deeper level, beyond the constrictions of society to the very cage of mortality.…”

Section: The Vampire As Othermentioning

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Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema’s <i>Interview with the Vampire</i> (1994)

Robinson

2019

Nordlit

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What can the taming of the monster reveal about its construction and the potential and limits of change? Modernist, individualist qualities of Western culture and society have shaped the construction and deconstruction of the monster in popular culture in general and film in particular. The idea of an historically emergent human nature and its associated norms is key to the construction of the monster as transgressive. Less obvious but nonetheless apparent is the constraining role this Western construction of human nature continues to play in recent cinematic attempts to approach the monster more closely. These are explored through a consideration of vampire movies within the horror genre, with a focus on Interview with the Vampire (dir. Neil Jordan, 1994), as arguably both influential within and emblematic of a more general trend. The film dismantles the conventional monster figure of the vampire, humanising her by detailing her transposition from a natural, human setting to something otherworldly. Human (read as Western) qualities are reinforced and salvaged from the disturbing ambivalence of conventional monstrosity, as we observe the logic of ‘human’ adaptation to alien conditions. In this way, both the paradoxical model of freedom as conformity to nature and the naturalising reification of contingent social groupings are re-affirmed.

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Section: The Vampire As Othermentioning

confidence: 99%

Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema’s <i>Interview with the Vampire</i> (1994)

Robinson

2019

Nordlit

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What We Do in the Shadows – Season 3, Tig Fong, Yana Gorskaya and Kyle Newacheck (dirs) (2021), USA: FX

McGovern

2022

Queer Studies in Media &Amp; Popular Culture

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What We Do in the Shadows -Season 3, Tig Fong, Yana Gorskaya and Kyle Newacheck (dirs) (2021), USA: FX Reviewed by Cheska McGovern, Lancaster University In 2019, the What We Do in the Shadows franchise (2005-present) expanded its queerinclusive fantastical universe with a comedy-horror television series of the same name, What We Do in the Shadows (WWDITS) (2019-present, USA: FXP, Two Canoes Pictures and 343 Incorporated). Set in modern-day Staten Island, the series follows the nocturnal lives of four vampire roommates and their familiar-turned-vampire-killer bodyguard -Nandor the Relentless, Laszlo, Nadja, Colin Robinson and Guillermo de la Cruz (performed by, respectively, Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Mark Proksch and Harvey Guillén). Through a celebratory approach towards otherness and the reappropriation of heterosexual romance tropes, the third season of Jemaine Clement's creation enriches its preestablished queerness and, more overtly than previous seasons, interrogates the chosen family model.

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Queere Fanfictions - Queere Utopien?

Labahn

2023

Critical Studies in Media and Communication

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Wie verhandeln Fans von Vampir-Serien in ihren Texten Themen wie Geschlecht, Sexualität, Familie oder Beziehungen? Und bringen sie in ihren Geschichten queere Utopien hervor? Denise Labahn untersucht die Aus- und Verhandlungen von Hetero- und Homonormativität durch Fans am Beispiel von Fanfictions zu den TV-Serien »Vampire Diaries«, »Buffy« und »True Blood« sowie einer Online-Gruppendiskussion mit queeren Produser*innen. Die empirische Studie verbindet u.a. Ansätze der Queer Theory und Fan Studies. Sie zeigt, wie Fans in ihren kollektiven und kollaborativen Entwürfen alternative Welten erschaffen sowie Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse und Beziehungen queeren - und so einen Beitrag zu vielfältigen Repräsentationen leisten.

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The Vampire, the Queer, and the Girl: Reflections on the Politics and Ethics of Immortality’s Gendering

Cited by 103 publications

References 19 publications

Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema’s <i>Interview with the Vampire</i> (1994)

Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema’s <i>Interview with the Vampire</i> (1994)

What We Do in the Shadows – Season 3, Tig Fong, Yana Gorskaya and Kyle Newacheck (dirs) (2021), USA: FX

Queere Fanfictions - Queere Utopien?

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