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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, P. Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-08T09:46:38Z
dc.date.available2020-04-08T09:46:38Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-11
dc.description.abstractWhat 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRobinson PS. Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema's Interview with the Vampire (1994). Nordlit. 2019;42:103-122en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1805361
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7557/13.5007
dc.identifier.issn0809-1668
dc.identifier.issn1503-2086
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18025
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges Arktiske universitet, Institutt for språk og kulturen_US
dc.relation.journalNordlit
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleTamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema's Interview with the Vampire (1994)en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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