Brigman Award Winner-Forged in Love and Death: Problematic Subjects in The Vampire Diaries

Bridgeman talks about The Vampire Diaries, a television series currently in its fourth season airing on the CW network. The television series draws more on the "story world" of the novels rather than the story in terms of its narrative. As a result of its location on a commercially driven...

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Published inJournal of popular culture Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 3 - 19
Main Author Bridgeman, Mary
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2013
Subjects
Cultural studies
Culture
Diaries
Diary
Humanity
Ideology
Mass media
Novels
Postmodernism
Social structure
Space
Television
Television programs
Vampires
Violence
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ISSN0022-3840
1540-5931
DOI10.1111/jpcu.12013

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Summary:Bridgeman talks about The Vampire Diaries, a television series currently in its fourth season airing on the CW network. The television series draws more on the "story world" of the novels rather than the story in terms of its narrative. As a result of its location on a commercially driven network television channel aimed at a young female viewership, The Vampire Diaries takes quite a "middle-of-the-road" ideological stance. Though The Vampire Diaries has an explicit function as a piece of consumer culture and carries the limitations and expectations that go along with this function, it may be react as simultaneously manifesting a reflection of contemporary cultural anxieties.
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ISSN:0022-3840
1540-5931
DOI:10.1111/jpcu.12013