The Mirror and the Window: The Seduction of Innocence and Gothic Coming of Age in Lat Den Ratte Komma In/Let The Right One In

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Howell, Amanda
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2016
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Swedish film Låt Den Rätte Komma In/Let the Right One In turns away from the representations of sexual threat and desire that have long typified – and currently dominate – vampire fiction and film, a significant generic, narrative, and aesthetic shift. Yet, while the film deliberately cuts sex from its story of love between a boy and a vampire, seduction is still key to its representation of vampirism, as the film plays, as is typical of gothic fiction more generally, upon our cultural investments in innocence.

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Gothic Studies

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18

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1

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Cinema studies

Screen and media culture

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