“I Was Only Human”: Puberty Crisis, Self Identity and Vampire Movies in Religious Context
“I Was Only Human”: Puberty Crisis, Self Identity and Vampire Movies in Religious Context

Summary/Abstract: During the past decades the thematic of vampires appears increasingly both in Literature, and the Film Industry. Nevertheless, since the publication of Lisa Jane Smith’s, The Vampire Diaries and, later, Stephenie Meyer’s, The Twilight Saga Collection, this subject is becoming more and more a part of teenage culture. In pre-modern communities, vampires’ archaic myths were the products of the collective unconscious. In the age of late modernity, however, the vampire’s thematic seems to be constructed on the basis of pop trends and conveys puberty issues of adolescents. This study, using the method of content analysis, examines the influence of those literature and artistic products on the social, psychological and spiritual development of adolescents.

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