Vlarney the Vampire was a character featured in “penny dreadfuls,” stories sold chapter by chapter in Victorian England beginning in 1845. Bram Stoker wrote his novel Dracula in 1897, and soon after the dawn of film, just before the turn of the 20th century, vampires had been adapted to the silver screen.
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Write a brief history of vampires on film and describe some of the atmospheric tricks and special effects used to create the illusion of the undead. Finally, choose three of your favorite (or least-favorite) vampire movies, and tell me what you believe makes them so successful. Use of dark cinematography? Weird camera angles? Atmospheric lighting? Jokes and modernity mixed with horror? Finally, what do you believe is the best vampire movie ever made?
Six paragraphs minimum (6-7 sentences per paragraph), Times New Roman, 12 point, black, double spaced. Be sure to attach scholarly sources as links at the bottom of your paper.
Here are some helpful hints for your discussion writing:
Do not use A.I. to generate your paper in part or in whole. I run all discussion submissions through an A.I. detector; if you use A.I., it will result in a zero on the assignment with no chance to resubmit. Using AI also robs you of the opportunity to learn from your writing mistakes, which will only make your writing stronger through trial and error!
It’s OK if you are getting dates, names or any outside information to reword and put into your paper; just be sure to copy and paste the URL addresses that you visit at the bottom of your paper. It lets me know that you are diligent about citing your sources.
Always be sure to meet (and exceed) my minimum writing requirement. Always have the specified number of paragraphs in distinct paragraphs, not as one big text with no breaks. Remember, just meeting the writing minimum is a C; it’s average. Try to go beyond it!
Do not copy and paste any information directly into your paper (it’s plagiarism and results in a zero grade with no chance to re-do), but rather put things into your own words, then cite the source (copy and paste the URL address) at the bottom of your paper.
Don’t quote scholars too much in your work; I’d rather hear your take on what they said. Say: “According to whom?” and then reiterate what they said in your own words. After that, you can cite the source at the bottom of your paper (copy and paste the URL address).
List the artist, the date and the year of an artwork’s creation first.
Artwork titles, as well as movie titles and names of TV shows, appear in italics, not quotation marks, like so:
Artwork:
Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii (1784)
Movie:
Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975)
TV show (give the date range of how long it aired originally):
Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
You always date the artwork (or TV show or film that you are mentioning) the first time you talk about it to orient the reader, and then afterward you can just say Jaws or Oath of the Horatii, but it still remains in italics throughout your paper.
