ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Syncretism
2 Nov 2017
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Fictional vampire: 1920"s: the vampire was perceived as dreadful and repellent, right from the movie nosferatu . Vlad the impaler: 1431-1477, prince of wallachia, served as inspiration for bram stoker"s, dracula . Changes in fictional vampires- late 1960s-1990s: change from frightening vampire to sexual and erotic vampire. Partly due to the liberation from censorship of sexual content on screen. Vampires from 1960"s on in our pop culture: charming, sophisticated, worldly, wealthy, older, male, malevolent, usually live alone, cultural outsiders (eastern europe, eg. Zombies: west-african spiritual tradition that was transported to caribbean (haiti especially, originally- zombies were harmless undead beings resurrected to work as slaves, appropriated by hollywood beginning in 19930"s and became cannibals. Hollywood zombies: serve as symbols of greatest fears- especially things that can"t be controlled by modernity- e. g infections, also serve as scapegoats for social problems- zombie akin to mindless consumers.
