De príncipe das trevas a galã juvenil : a surpreendente trajetória do vampiro moderno

Abstract

This article analyzes the transformation of the modern myth of the vampire, who spent a monster feared and repulsive to contemporary incarnation of the prince, a symbol of pure romantic love. The analysis will focus mainly on the comparison between the iconographic "Twilight" series, created by author Stephanie Meyer and turned into blockbuster movies worldwide, and "Bram Stoker's Dracula," a work of director Francis Ford Coppola, who review the most famous vampire of all time. We will see that through the images of these two fantastic creatures, you can point out features of the societies that created them and understand the path traced by the vampire redemption, a mythological character who symbolizes the profound changes that have occurred over the twentieth century and the beginning of this century.