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My Own Vampire: The Metamorphosis of the Queer Monster in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula

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From: Gothic Studies
Date: 20051101
Author:McGunnigle, Christopher

When I saw him four days ago down in this own place he looked queer.

Bram Stoker, Dracula1

Since its release in 1992, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula has made a deep impression upon the vampire community, or more likely left an infamous hole in it.2 Critics received Coppola's movie with closed fangs. To Fred Botting, Bram Stoker's Dracula is 'The End of Gothic', the final metamorphosis of a faltering convention into some strange and alien form that destroys all of Gothic's power.3 Stoker's novel brought to greatness a war between the establishment of gender roles, threatened by ...

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