Twilight (2008) feat. Julia Bianco
Description
Hold on tight, spidermonkeys. We’re starting Supernatural Romance Month with THE supernatural romance of the millennial generation: Twilight! We traverse through a smattering of vampire lore from around the world and in literature, dissect the differences between real Quileute mythology and the white nonsense created by Stephanie Meyer, and explore the traditional Mormon messaging of this story.
Big thanks to friend-of-the-pod Julia for demanding we do this episode!
Research for this episode:
The long and bloody history of vampires in literature - MPRNews
A Brief History of Vampire Fiction - Wired.com
Vampires: Fact, Fiction, and Folklore - Live Science
The Bloody Truth About Vampires - National Geographic
Truth Versus Twilight - The Burke Museum
Vampires and werewolves: Rewriting religious and racial stereotyping in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series - Georgina Ledvinka, University of Notre Dame Australia
The Vampire by Francis Hindes Groome
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Cover Art by William Callaghan
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