Kinoeye | Italian horror: Freda and Bava's I Vampiri -
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Published on: 5/4/2002
Last Visited: 8/23/2004
Exploring the various ways in which this film updates the gothicism of the traditional vampire tale, Stacey Abbott shows how "European horror began to confront the terrors of modernisation."
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Stacey Abbott
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Stacey Abbott is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton as well as being a doctoral candidate at Birkbeck College, University of London.Her thesis, "'Up-to-Date With a Vengeance': Modern Vampires from Dracula to Blade," is an examination of the relationship between the cinematic vampire and theories of modernity.Her other research interests include Canadian cinema, silent cinema and the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.