摘要

《暮光之城》是一部以吸血鬼及青春爱情为题材的爱情幻想电影，虽然电影中吸血鬼们的大多数特征基于传统的吸血鬼形象，但他们已不再单纯是魔鬼、恐怖、邪恶的代名词，他们俨然成为带有感情、充满爱的不死生物，并深受广大各年龄段观众所喜爱。
自从《暮光之城》上映后，网络上、报纸中、杂志里不断出现关于吸血鬼文化和形象的文章，说明了现代读者和电影爱好者对沉睡已久的吸血鬼文化产生了兴趣和疑问。于是，在这个时候有必要对传统的吸血鬼和电影中的吸血鬼形象做一个解析和比较。
本论文通过对电影《暮光之城》中吸血鬼的形象解析，深入探讨吸血鬼的科学和宗教道德两方面的起源、区别吸血鬼在各地区不同的传说及特征、与吸血鬼有关的历史人物介绍、还有文学、影视作品中吸血鬼文化的改变及原因，并在原因中提炼出人类对生活、生命、爱情的向往态度。

关键词：暮光之城，吸血鬼，青春爱情，文化，改变

Abstract

"Twilight" is the series of movies about vampires and young love, which have a theme of romance, although most of their vampire’s characteristics in the movie are based on the traditional image of vampire, but they are no longer simply a synonym of devil, horror or evil. They behaved as the undead with feelings and sentiment of love. What is more, they are gentle as noble and well received by the audience of all ages.
Since the release of "Twilight", there are ceaselessly the articles about the vampire culture and the image on the network, newspaper, magazine, showing that the modern readers and film lovers are interested in the slumbering vampire culture, which is not concerned for a long time. Thus, at this time, it is necessary to make the analysis and comparison between the traditional vampire and the vampire in the movie.
By analyzing the image and characteristics in the film "Twilight", the thesis mainly discuss the origin of vampires in scientific medical profession and religious ruling community, the different characteristics of vampire in ancient religions and modern literature, novels and poetry, difference of vampire’s characteristics in the film ”Twilight” from the traditional one, to extract the reasons of human’s yearning attitude for life, love and anima.

Key words: Twilight, Vampire, Young love, Culture, Change

1   Introduction
1.1 Major questions to be discussed
The name "vampire" is no longer a strange word when people today are talking about it. The powerful Hollywood made this name known to all the world. From movies to computer games, readers can find this name often impressed in their head.