The Smiling Daughters of Darkness: Visual Reimaginings of Joseph Le Fanu’s Carmilla
The Smiling Daughters of Darkness: Visual Reimaginings of Joseph Le Fanu’s Carmilla
Author(s): Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: lesbian vampire; film adaptation; Delphine Seyrig; palimpsest; bleed-through
Summary/Abstract: The author presents a discussion of visual reimaginings in painting and illustrations, comic books, feature films, TV shows and video games, of Joseph Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, concentrating on the 1971 film, Daughters of Darkness, in which the lead was played by Delphine Seyrig. This is accompanied by analysis of the novella’s ground-breaking female (lesbian) vampire and various motifs of the genre.
- Page Range: 179-188
- Page Count: 10
- Publication Year: 2018
- Language: English
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