Saturday, June 25, 2011

Future Project?... Vampires

Here's a link to the History channels history of vampires. The vampire actually is a great metaphor, as are many of our greatest stories.
http://news.discovery.com/videos/history-history-of-vampires.html
I only post it because I might do a report on the history of horror films and how they ebbed and flowed with the times for senior Anthropology project. I wanted to do something that would study fear and how it develops and changes in society. It's a major biological characteristic that could have been something totally different but wasn't.
In this case I would be trying to find patterns in the major horror films of an era, such as slashers for the 80's, and then finding patterns in the society of the time, politics, birth rates, recent wars, civil rights of the time, etc. Between those two I would look to see if there's a pattern. Who knows what I'd find, and I'm sure I'll narrow this down once I get more into it but for now this my idea.

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