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- Title
LOST BOYS THE INFERNAL YOUTH OF THE CINEMATIC TEENAGE VAMPIRE.
- Authors
Bacon, Simon
- Abstract
This paper takes a comparative look at the configuration of boyhood as shown in two periods of the vampire film: the teen-vamp explosion of the 1980s, which produced Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, and recent representations in vampire romance such as Edward Cullen in Stephanie Meyer's The Twilight Saga. In particular, it highlight the tensions between cultural constructions of boyhood and how the young male child himself conforms to, or opposes, ideological impositions. It also pinpoints the opportunities eventuated through the figure of the adolescent vampire as regards the construction of personal agency and self-determination.
- Subjects
LOST Boys, The (Film); TWILIGHT Saga book series; TWILIGHT Saga film series; VAMPIRE films; FANTASY films; TEENAGE actors; BOYS in motion pictures; IDEOLOGY in motion pictures
- Publication
Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 2, p152
- ISSN
1931-9045
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/thy.0502.152