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  • Seduced and abandoned: Lesbian vampires on screen 1968-74

    Author(s)
    Baker, David
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Baker, David J.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Between 1968 and 1974 there was an extraordinary proliferation of lesbian vampire feature films. This proliferation was due to a combination of factors. Graphic representations of lesbian sex entered the low-budget horror genre due to the more general relaxing of restrictions on what was permissible on screen at that time. This took place againstwhat is often termed the 'sexual revolution' and the rise of feminism.Critical work on these films has tended to follow the work of Bonnie Zimmerman and Andrea Weiss who suggested that the narrative of these films employ a structure of bisexual triangular desire wherein the heterosexual ...
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    Between 1968 and 1974 there was an extraordinary proliferation of lesbian vampire feature films. This proliferation was due to a combination of factors. Graphic representations of lesbian sex entered the low-budget horror genre due to the more general relaxing of restrictions on what was permissible on screen at that time. This took place againstwhat is often termed the 'sexual revolution' and the rise of feminism.Critical work on these films has tended to follow the work of Bonnie Zimmerman and Andrea Weiss who suggested that the narrative of these films employ a structure of bisexual triangular desire wherein the heterosexual couple are threatened by the lesbian vampire only to be reunited at the end of the film - thus alleviatingmen's fears and re-establishing patriarchal norms.Aclose analysis of the films, however, indicates that although some do employ the structure of bisexual triangular desire, the critique established by Zimmerman and Weiss is extremely impoverished in relation to the complexity of the films themselves.
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    Journal Title
    Continuum
    Volume
    26
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.698035
    Subject
    Cinema Studies
    Film, Television and Digital Media
    Communication and Media Studies
    Cultural Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50007
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