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fandomhigh2013-04-19 01:47 am
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Pop Culture: Everything I Ever Needed To Know I Learnt From... [Thurs, 1st Period]
"Oh, good, you're back," Oz said by way of greeting the class, then "Vampires."
"You see, the thing about pop culture, and especially things like genre fiction, is that it goes through phases and cycles, reflecting the changes in the culture it comes from, the fears and hopes of the day, and fictional vampires are a prime example of this for one very good reason, namely that in fiction the vampire is most often used a metaphor. For sex. You know with the whole penetration thing with the biting and the staking and all that, and as you may have noticed from some of our other classes, people can be kind of messed up about sex, so looking at can be an insight to some of the attitudes towards sex particular to that place and time, or at least to the culture or subculture the author is coming from."
You could tell where this was headed, right? "I can be easier to pick up on these things by watching rather than just hearing me talk about them, so today we're going to be watching the film of the book which sparked the most recent upsurge of vampirism in the cultural zeitgeist."
Because apparently they hadn't suffered enough last week.
"You see, the thing about pop culture, and especially things like genre fiction, is that it goes through phases and cycles, reflecting the changes in the culture it comes from, the fears and hopes of the day, and fictional vampires are a prime example of this for one very good reason, namely that in fiction the vampire is most often used a metaphor. For sex. You know with the whole penetration thing with the biting and the staking and all that, and as you may have noticed from some of our other classes, people can be kind of messed up about sex, so looking at can be an insight to some of the attitudes towards sex particular to that place and time, or at least to the culture or subculture the author is coming from."
You could tell where this was headed, right? "I can be easier to pick up on these things by watching rather than just hearing me talk about them, so today we're going to be watching the film of the book which sparked the most recent upsurge of vampirism in the cultural zeitgeist."
Because apparently they hadn't suffered enough last week.
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