Abstract
In recent film adaptations of the Dracula mythos, the arch-vampire has increasingly been steered by the popular culture towards starting a family and defending it. This goes against decades of cinematic treatment of vampirism where, traditionally, the patriarchal family values were restored by the ritual destruction of the vampire by his mortal opponents. Early horror movies presented the sons and daughters of Dracula as threatening and deadly—and they were hardly ever his physical progeny to begin with. The post-modern Dracula seems to enjoy, and endorse, child-centred family life. Is this a new cultural beginning for Dracula, or a case mid-undeath crisis?
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Babilas, D. (2017). Papa Dracula: Vampires for Family Values?. In: Crișan, MM. (eds) Dracula. Palgrave Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63366-4_14
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