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- Title
Exhausting horror: twenty-first-century vampires in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive.
- Authors
Price, Zachary
- Abstract
The article examines the affective potency of 21st century vampire genre in Jim Jarmusch's film "Only Lovers Left Alive." It argues that the film is all mood and no action, all daydream and no nightmare and betrays the horror genre through its languorous affect that effectively drains the vampire characters' ability to generate fear. Neither parody nor camp version of vampirism, the film's vampire protagonists have lost their abjection and absorbed other genre's affective promise.
- Subjects
VAMPIRE films; ONLY Lovers Left Alive (Film); JARMUSCH, Jim, 1953-; HORROR films; FILM genres
- Publication
Screen, 2018, Vol 59, Issue 3, p333
- ISSN
0036-9543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/screen/hjy034