week10~

First, sorry for the late post.

Then this is my last blog, I post week 1,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12. Please give me some comments

How do you think Buffy has influenced the contemporary vampire drama “True Blood” and the “Twilight” series of novels and films?

Buffy is on show earlier than “True Blood” and “Twilight”. So Buffy is the “ancestor” of the vampire story. With the beginning of Buffy, all the vampire types are have the same plot. I haven’t seen the drama “True Blood”, so here I don't say something about it. But “twilight”, the most famous novel in 21^st Century, I can show you some influence from Buffy. First, the vampire theme. In the West Country, vampire is a mysterious thing. So this kind of theme can attract more audiences. Second, Buffy is not just a vampire drama, but a romantic story, in this drama, the heroine’s love is an attractive plot. The audiences want to know the happiness of the heroine. An in twilight, the most attractive plot is the romantic love. The funs of twilight all love the true love between the human and vampire. Third, the war of different race is also the influence from Buffy. In Buffy, the clash happened between human and vampire, and in twilight, it is the vampire and wolves’ clash. But in the end, the rights always beat wrongs, and the story has a happy ending.

In what way is Buffy influenced by the romantic gothic tradition?

“Buffy adopts and adapts many romantic gothic conventions”, In Rose (2002), there is a conclusion of that. So in what way Buffy influenced by the romantic gothic tradition? First,

“Buffy employs romantic ideology in contemporary contexts and terms and suggests alternatives within that framework.” Buffy’s story is happened in our date, so the story’s ideology is closed to our time. With the framework, Buffy’s story become a good story with the sense of time. Second,” the characters, story line, and outcome both acknowledge the issues rise in Shelley’s novel and suggest antipatriarchal and postfeminist solutions to the problems Shelley saw in romantic ideology.” In Shelley’s novel, the antipatriarchal and postfeminist is the main point. And in Buffy, it huge raises the main point of Shelley’s novel. Different with Shelly’s novel, Buffy put all the things more close into life.

Reference

Rose, A (2002) of creatures and creators: Buffy does Frankenstein, in R. Wilcox & D. Lavery (eds) Fighting the forces: what’s at stake in Buffy the vampire slayer. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.