The Body and the Blood of Eternal UnDeath
Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, effects a double reversal of the Christ myth: the Christ is inverted and Dracula is constructed as a Christ antitype before being saved as a new Christ inclusive of the feminine principle. The film achieves this double reversal by stereotyping...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2004]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Summary: | Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, effects a double reversal of the Christ myth: the Christ is inverted and Dracula is constructed as a Christ antitype before being saved as a new Christ inclusive of the feminine principle. The film achieves this double reversal by stereotyping the female characters as representative of diseased and immoral flesh that can be cleansed only by absorption into the non-bodily male spirit. Thereby, the film leaves us with elided but nevertheless explosive mythical tensions. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.6.1.003 |