Interview with a vampire homosexuality
Bisexuality in the book
Amid rave reviews, praising the new AMC series for &#;finally letting the vampires be gay&#;, the conversation about the show&#;s treatment of bisexuality is silenced. To describe the show&#;s take on bisexuality in one word, it is complicated. Simultaneously erased, elevated, trodden down, associated with evil, seductiveness, villainy, privilege, freedom, and queerness. Laden with rich meaning, some of the scenes form a master class in cinematic storytelling through bisexuality, while others are the epitome of classic biphobia.
This is going to be a series of articles in which I show how Interview With the Vampiretakes the source material’s bisexuality and turns it into ambivalent biphobia, by depicting it as simultaneously oppressive and liberatory. I&#;ll explore bisexual erasure, the meanings given to bisexuality, and clarify how these ultimately reveal bisexuality’s subversive power against dominant social structures.
Let me start with a disclaimer.
Just so we&#;re clear &#; this is a great show
Though much complaint is heard from fans
Watching TV has never been so difficult. With more shows present in more places than ever, it's easy to lose hours, even days, to the hellscape algorithm of streamers like Netflix, desperately searching for something to watch amongst all the schlock.
It's anything but chill at this point. And when you undertake finally discover a show worthy of your time, it can be hard to focus without checking your phone and resisting the siren pull of social media. But have no verb, help is at hand because I have the answer to all your problems in the form of a show that might sound schlocky, but is actually the best thing you'll watch on screen all year.
I am of course talking about Interview with the Vampire, AMC's horny and extremely gay adaptation of Anne Rice's already horny and already rather gay vampire saga which has returned to the BBC for its second season.
The difference this time around is that every homoerotic tease, every not-so subtle metaphor, is no longer subtext. Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac are now obsessively in love with each other, actin
By Karolina Gruschka
Every generation “embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the one it deserves.&#;
As US scholar Nina Auerbach points out in the quote above, vampires often reflect certain aspects of culture and current society. This means the image of the vampire is an ever shifting one that adapts to the requirements of the morning and age. The idealized other offers an escape from ‘common’ society and its pressures but, at the same time, painfully highlights our fears, anxieties and their inescapability. In my view, the ambiguity between desire and aversion is the fundamental element of vampire lore that generates its magnetism. Who wants to live forever? A life for eternity sounds very tempting but it comes at a monstrous price.
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (written , published ) has a great deal of homosexual overtones reflecting the gradually relaxing attitudes of Westerners towards gender, sex and sexuality in the s (i.e. that is when an end was position to considering homosexuality as a mental illness in the USA!). However, similar to biblical times when s
TV Review: Interview with the Vampire
For as long as I can remember, Anne Rice’s iconic gothic book series The Vampire Chronicles has always epitomized everything I loved about vampire mythology. Perhaps even moreso than Dracula, anytime I see something vampire-related, I automatically compare it back to Rice’s golden standard. The last time her most famous creation, the vampire Lestat, was seen onscreen, he was played by Stuart Townsend in the very fun but technically flawed Queen of the Damned in Flash forward twenty years, and now Anne Rice’s characters are finally seeing new life thanks to AMC’s updated adaptation! Up until her untimely death, Rice was heavily invested in this version; judging by the first five out of eight episodes in the series, Rice’s involvement really shines through. Interview with the Vampire is a timely depiction of the vampire legend, updated with recontextualized time period aesthetics, racial politics, and full-throttle embracing of its queer text.
Just to get it out of the way immediately, Interview with the Vampire definitely takes s