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- Title
The Mirror and the Window: The Seduction of Innocence and Gothic Coming of Age in Låt Den Rätte Komma In/Let The Right One In.
- Authors
Howell, Amanda
- Abstract
Swedish film Låt Den Rätte Komma In/Let the Right One In turns away from the representations of sexual threat and desire that have long typified - and currently dominate - vampire fiction and film, a significant generic, narrative, and aesthetic shift. Yet, while the film deliberately cuts sex from its story of love between a boy and a vampire, seduction is still key to its representation of vampirism, as the film plays, as is typical of gothic fiction more generally, upon our cultural investments in innocence.
- Subjects
LET the Right One In (Film); VAMPIRE films; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); INNOCENCE (Psychology); SEXOLOGY
- Publication
Gothic Studies, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
1362-7937
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/GS.0005