Alan Ball’s first season of True Blood was an overnight
sensation; creating characters that you can both love and hate intermittently.
This mature vampire drama/horror
Vampires have finally come out the coffin in this
television production. With the help of the Japanese’ synthetic ‘TruBlood’,
vampires are able to reassure humans that they mean to cause them no harm.
True Blood’s season premiere introduced the summer this
year picking up where the last season left off; Bill drinking Lilith’s blood.
Someone once said to me; “he’s become Billith”. Even though Billith is set to
leash an almighty wrath in True Blood, the actor Stephen Moyer cannot stop
smiling as he was spotted outside the Los Angeles Film School on Sunset
Boulevard; following a night out at the 2013 BAFTA LA Student Film Awards.
Sookie is set to meet another love interest in this
season whilst contemplating living a normal life again; she hears moaning and
tries to ignore the man she hears, but Sookie cannot just ignore someone who
needs help. This has always been her downfall. He turns out to be a Halfling
fairy like her. So I wonder what is in store for Miss Stackhouse this year?
This season will focus on a war between the humans and
the vampire’s; this being the central focal point of conflict in this year’s
instalment.
With True Blood fully imbedded in popular culture I
thought it was fitting to include my book in this post. It explores the
evolution of the vampire from beast to beauty. Examining True Blood, Vampire
Diaries and others alike to show how the vampire has evolved into a thing of
beauty and is no longer a figure of monstrous fear.
Here is the description of my book:
This book
presents an investigation of the modification and transformation of the vampire
myth; contending that the modern vampire has evolved from a figure of fear to
one of domestication and compassion.
Researching
into vampires and taking into account the historical evolution and contemporary
significance this book will explore myth, repressed memories, desires and
primordial images giving rise to the archetypal hero that is the modern
vampire.
Also
explored in this book are the repressed fears and desires of oedipal origins,
driven by the Freudian model of the mind. With reference to Sigmund Freud’s
models and using Carl Jung’s framework, including the collective i.e. the
Shadow, Id, Ego, Superego will be explored in order to investigate this change
from ‘Beast to Beauty’.
Studying
cultural archetypes in relation to belief and historical evidence and following
Freudian and Jungian approaches to psychoanalysis provides a pragmatic base for
understanding the human psyche.
In response,
the following film and television representations of the vampire show the
evolution from a figure of fear to a figure of compassion and domestication. Who can resist their charms now?!
My book is available on
Lulu.com, Amazon, Kindle, Smashwords.com, ibookstore, Barnes and Noble and of course on my
various blogs and shops. Formats available are paperback, hardback and eBook (coming soon - audio book). This week it will also be
available on
Thanks for reading and I hope
you enjoy the book.
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