SUMMA DÆMONICA BIBLIOGRAFIA

SUSETIYO 2012 (7SDB2018)

Puguh Budi Susetiyo

Vampires and Werewolves in the Movies.

Social aspects of their representation

(Teză de master)

Uniwersytet Warszawsk, 2012, 88 p. (pdf.)

Table of contents

INTRODUCTION – 5; CHAPTER I. MONSTERS IN CULTURE: FOLKLORE AND HORROR MOVIES – 8; 1.1. HORROR FILMS AND FOLKLORE TALES – 8; 1.2. VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES IN HOLLYWOOD CINEMA – 16; 1.3. VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES AS HORROR CREATURES – 23; 1.4. THE EXCLUSION OF TWILIGHT – 31; CHAPTER II. THE STRUCTURE OF HORROR MOVIES AND CHARACTERISTIC OF ITS MONSTERS – 35; 2.1. VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES AS REPETITIVE CONTEMPORARY HORROR MONSTERS – 35; 2.2. FOUR ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF THE HORROR GENRE – 44; 2.3 VAN HELSING AS A CLASSICAL HORROR MOVIE AND UNDERWORLD AS A POSTMODERN HORROR MOVIE – 55; 2.4. VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES AS FANTASTIC CREATURES – 62; CHAPTER III – 66; THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE REPRESENTATION OF VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES IN HORROR MOVIES – 66; 3.1. THE INFLUENCE OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN HORROR MOVIES – 66: 3.2. THE REPRESENTATION AND THE RELATION OF VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES – 76; CONCLUSION – 83; BIBLIOGRAPHY – 85; FILMOGRAPHY – 87; INTERNET SOURCES – 87; LIST OF FIGURES – 88.

Introduction

„The emergences of movies in which vampires and werewolves appear together become the main concern of the writer of this thesis to discover their relationship and how they are related to the emerging stories about them in the urban society. The starting point to analyses was author‟s concern about the cause of presentation such distant in origin, image, and social role creatures as vampires and werewolves in the 21st century movies. E.g. movies such as Van Helsing (2004), Underworld (2003), Underworld: Evolution (2006), Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009), Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), and Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) show the mentioned creatures together in one narration. The recent movies such as Underworld: The Awakening (2012), and Twilight Saga: Breaking Down I (2012) also show vampires and werewolves together for they are the sequels of the previous movies. Those movies are unique and interesting to be discussed and analyzed in order to figure out the storyline in those movies, and the cultural genesis of vampires and werewolves stories on which the movies are based on. The relationship between the emerging stories in the contemporary urban society and the movies on monsters, vampires and werewolves, composes the frame for understanding their cultural sense, and could be useful for the critical thinking of the audience. The author of the thesis has done the library and the online research together with the movies screening and analysis to get a comprehensive understanding about the stories of vampires and werewolves and their representation seen through social point of view. The main sources of this thesis were selected by the writer, and among them are the movies: Van Helsing, Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. They are selected since they are published in DVD format in the first decade of the 21st century and considered having strong stories to represent the relationship between vampires and werewolves in the movies. Theoretical work on the horror movies was perfectly done by Noël Carrol whose book The Philosophy Of Horror was used as a main source for analytical categories of this thesis. The secondary sources, involving some book and articles about horror movies, monsters, film screening, Enlightenment, urban legends, and sociology, were analyzed together with the main sources involving some figures from the movie taken by from reliable online sources. This process is expected to bring fresh and genuine research which can offer a contribution to the society or the film spectators in understanding the phenomenon of vampires and werewolves as monsters in the 21st century horror movies. The structure of this thesis is simple, maim work is divided into three chapters. The first chapter exposes the folklore or the urban stories which relate to the emergence of the horror movies. The author notes and lists the horror movies in the Hollywood cinema then extracts some movies which only show vampires or werewolves since the main focus of the thesis is movies showing vampires and werewolves together in a movie. However, Twilight Saga: New Moon and Eclipse is excluded from the main analysis with some reasons explained later. Continually, the explanation of vampires and werewolves as horror creatures become a significant part because of their common presence in the horror movies. The second chapter mainly discuses the structure of the horror movies based on the secondary sources. Vampires and werewolves are considered as repetitive contemporary horror monsters and fantastic creatures. Their presence is supported and influenced by the deep structure of horror genre. This chapter also draws a simple exposition that the movie Van Helsing is considered as a classical horror movie although it is published in the 21st century; meanwhile Underworld (film series) is considered as a postmodern horror movie. Furthermore, the third chapter briefly analyzes the influence of the Enlightenment in the horror movies, and the representation and the relation between vampires and werewolves in this genre which is done from sociological perspective. The Enlightenment creates a lot of possibilities to present the modernity and the scientific explanation which will be used to solve the emerging problems in the horror movies. The relationship and the representation of vampires and werewolves are interesting for they do not only emerge as monsters, but they present a relationship and significant roles through their appearance and attributes. Therefore, this thesis looks forward to fascinate its readers in understanding horror movies and vampires and werewolves as horror monsters. Moreover, the author expects the readers to become more critical in reading and watching both the historical and the contemporary horror movies with vampires and/or werewolves as the monsters. Those movies do not only offer tension which is one of the crucial features of horror movies, but also a lot of meanings that can create more satisfaction in discovering the real nature of both, the horror movies and the monsters” (pp. 5-7).