"Soy un vampiro pero también una chica": vampiros regenerados en True Blood

  1. Antoni Maestre Brotons 1
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

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Journal:
Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic
  1. Tosca, Susana (coord.)
  2. Sánchez Trigos, Rubén (coord.)
  3. Cuadrado Alvarado, Alfonso (coord.)

ISSN: 2014-7910

Year of publication: 2016

Issue Title: The Fantastic in the New Golden Age of Television (1999-2015)

Volume: 4

Issue: 1

Pages: 107-128

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5565/REV/BRUMAL.289 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

More publications in: Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic

Abstract

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.

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