Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Antoni Maestre Brotons

Titel

I'm a vampire, but also a girl»: regenerated vampires in True Blood / «Soy un vampiro pero también una chica»: vampiros regenerados en True Blood

Ist Teil von

• Brumal : Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico = research journal on the fantastic, 2016-01, Vol.4 (1), p.197

Ort / Verlag

Bellaterra: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In classic gothic fiction, vampires were conceived of as a monster to be destroyed; however, in the last forty years novels, films and TV series tend to assimilate them to human society. This process is known as domestication or regeneration. As a metaphor for sexual, racial, gender or class difference, this adaptation represents, according to Foucault, an operation of power to subdue these differences and integrate them in the social and cultural order. True Blood (2008-2014) perfectly shows this process of regeneration which simultaneously entails subjugation. Related to political correctness, the new monster no longer symbolizes the «perverted», but the «different» in need of protection and acceptance notwithstanding the risks for social and family cohesion.