早期电影中吸血鬼与现代电影中吸血鬼形象的对比_英语论文

Contrast between Vampires’ Images in Early-stage and Modern Films

摘要

吸血鬼起源于宗教。当电影艺术在十九世纪末出现后，吸血鬼形象于1922年被搬上了银幕。在世界上最早的吸血鬼电影《诺斯费拉图》中，吸血鬼有着苍白的面孔，尖锐的牙齿，并且携带有致命的瘟疫。然而，现代电影中塑造的吸血鬼形象早已不同于《诺斯费拉图》中吸血鬼形象。现代电影中的吸血鬼就像电影《暮光之城》中的人物一样,他们中的大多数都有着贵族气质、英俊的外表和精致的品味。本文拟采用对比与分析的方法从外貌、个性以及情感等方面对电影《诺斯费拉图》和《暮光之城》中呈现出的吸血鬼形象进行深入比较以展现在吸血鬼日益人性化的一面。结合电影的创作文化背景及隐藏的创作意图，笔者还将进一步阐释早期及当代电影中的吸血鬼形象的区别主要是受人类对自然的普遍认知和人类精神文化发展的影响。

关键词：吸血鬼形象；早期和现代电影中的形象对比；《诺斯费拉图》；《暮光之城》

Abstract

The vampires were originated in religion. The film art appeared in the late 19th century, and the images of vampires were moved to screen in 1922. In Nosferatu-A Symphony Of Horror, the earliest vampire film in the world, the vampire has a pale face and sharp teeth, and carries a fatal plague. However, the vampires' images portrayed in modern films are completely different from that appeared in Nosferatu-A Symphony Of Horror. In modern films, most of them are just like those characters shown in the film The Twilight Saga with aristocratic temperament, handsome appearance, and refined taste. This article will deeply contrast and analyze the vampires’ images in the two films The Twilight Saga and Nosferatu-A Symphony Of Horror from the aspects of their appearances, personal characteristics and internal sensibilities in order to demonstrate the increasing humanization of modern vampire images. Besides, taking the creation background and hidden creative idea of the two films into consideration, the author will give a further explanation about the fact that the differences between the vampires’ images in early stage and modern films are mainly caused by the universal knowledge of human’s understanding to the nature and the spiritual development of human’s culture.

Keywords: vampire image; image contrast between early stage and modern films; Nosferatu-A Symphony Of Horror; The Twilight Saga

Contents

1. Introduction 1 

1.1 An overview of vampire cultural phenomenon around the world 1

1.2 Previous research into the vampire cultural phenomenon 2

2. The origins of early vampire images 3

3. The image of vampire in Nosferatu 4 

3.1 From the grave to the screen 4

3.2 The vampire with non-human appearance in Nosferatu 4

3.3 Human or Beast 5

4. The images of vampires in The Twilight Saga 5

   4.1 The vampires with human appearance in The Twilight Saga 5

   4.2 The vampires with human characters in The Twilight Saga 6

   4.3 The vampires with human emotions in The Twilight Saga 7

5. Profound analysis of vampires’ images in the modern films 8

5.1The connotation of the times 8

5.2The creation intentions 8

Conclusion 10

References 11