Popular fiction and cinema

In this course we will explore the intersection of popular fiction and cinema by taking into account the latest multidisciplinary scholarly developments.  We will investigate the key terms important for both popular fiction and cinema, including narrative strategies, challenges of adaptations and translations, the subjectivity, the gaze, the voice, the spectatorship, the class, the gender, the sexual difference and so forth.  This year our main focus is on the vampire narratives. Why are vampires so fascinating? Is it their immortality? Is it because they are the supernatural creatures that most resembles us? This course will trace the path of the vampire in literature and film and address its prominence in popular culture and its flexibility as a metaphor.