Bullseye! This week Gracie & Abbey discuss the most underrated American vampire film! Near Dark, even over 30 years later, is still eerily relevant to this day. Hatred against the "other," father's of the night and day, toxic masculinity, and women trying to survive in a patriarchal society (vampire or otherwise) are among some of the talking points.
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Resources:
Near Dark (1987). dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Holte, James Craig. Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. Greenwood Press, 1997.
Palmer, Louis H. Vampires in the New World. Praeger, 2013.
Rickels, Laurence A. The Vampire Lectures. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Simpson, Philip. “Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture.” Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002. Questia.com.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf1Fmn5zBzQ
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http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0083.xml
http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/guestblog/american-independent-gothic-near-dark-kathryn-bigelow-1987/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/10/looking_at_kathryn_bigelow_s_vampire_western_near_dark_30_years_later.html
http://brightlightsfilm.com/young-vampires-love-kathryn-bigelows-near-dark/#.W0uJYthKjq0
http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=862
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeroderma_pigmentosum
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/491987%7C0/Near-Dark.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLtFxykg1ew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurt_Locker
