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Deciphering the Codes of "Les Vampires" by Feuillade Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Dr. Kristine Butler Karlson has published on the films of René Clair, Chantal Ackerman, and Pedro Almodovar and on early French serial films such as the series of “Les Vampires” by Louis Feuillade. She is currently developing research in the problems of ethnic and cultural identity in early French cinema. She is also preparing a book-length manuscript on how urbanization and the development of technologies such as the phonograph changed the way French narrative developed in the late nineteenth century. |
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Irma Vep: seductive, independent modern woman or female symbol of the
moral lassitude of her age? French director Louis Feuillade’s
popular crime serial “Les Vampires” would be nothing
without its most famous character. How does this film “code”
Irma as both a titillating example of female agency and a harbinger
of the dangers of women’s sexual freedom in the Bell Epoque?
What is detective Philippe Guérande really deciphering as
he labors to solve the mystery of the Vampire gang?|
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