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She seems dead, but she's a vampire, right? →

July 29, 2016 Miranda Butler
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In this article for the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) postgraduate blog, I position Carmilla the web series (2014-2016) as a feminist retelling of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1871 vampire story, which remediates Carmilla's character through millennial webculture. By saturating Carmilla the character with pop culture awareness, the series depicts the vampire as a centuries-old cultural repository, whose up-to-date-ness pushes her toward the side of good rather than evil. Similarly, because it takes place in an almost-real-yet-partly-science-fictional universe, explores a sophisticated relationship between Carmilla and Laura, and includes other characters with complex gender identities and sexualities, Carmilla the series reclaims the Victorian sensationalist story in order to envision a speculative queer utopia. 

Click here to read the full article on The Victorianist.

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