The ever-wonderful Adrian Martin made it all too easy for Film Studies For Free today and very helpfully pointed it in the direction of a wonderful online Film Studies resource: recordings and abstracts of the papers for Vampires Vamps and Va Va Voom: A Critical Engagement with Paranormal Romance, a Two-Day Symposium, organised by the Sìdhe Literary Collective, Monash University, 19 & 20 September 2008. Below are the all important links:
- Conference Opening Talk (Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario)
- Lenise Prater He is a Monster: Masculinity, Animalism and the Gendering of Power in Paranormal Romance
- Laura-Jane Maher Having it both ways: the queering of heteronormative romance
- Virginia Keft-Kennedy Fantasising Masculinity in Buffyverse Slash Fiction: Sexuality, Violence, and the Vampire
- Kirsten Stevens Conformity through transgression: An examination of the proliferation of vampires within online cultures
- Adrian Martin Playing Vampire Cool: The Strange Postmodern Romances of Michael Almereyda’s Nadja (1994) and Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction (1995)
- Evie Kendal Fangs and Phalluses: The Vampire as Sexual Deviant
- Philippe Met A Discussion of Horror Films with Adrian Martin
- Patrick Spedding Dracula (1979) as Paranormal Romance
- Sian Mitchell “I think the thrall has gone out of our relationship”: Buffy and Dracula - a parodic adventure in romance
- Odette Kelada Carmilla: corporeal integrity and reviving romantic bodies
- Melanie Burns Possessing and Consuming Desire: Vampire as Metaphor
- Deb Watson Consuming Passions: Vampires, Hunger and Sexuality
- Michelle de Stefani The Mother is a Vamp: explorations into the Mommy-lit faction of Paranormal Romance
- Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario Undead Romance Writers
- Panel Discussion An open discussion, with Narelle Harris, author of vampire novel set in Melbourne, The Opposite of Life; Laura Jane Maher; and Odette Kelada.
