The Hunger

Replication takes various forms and comes in at various levels in The Hunger. At one level, it reflects and imitates the action and images of other vampire movies, from Murnau's Nosferatu through Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. These films can be considered some versions of a "take, entering into what Eco refers to as the era of repetition (18) by way of the remake, or the "telling again [of] a previous successful story" (19). However, the multiple vampire movies can also be considered as instances of what Eco refers to as intertextual dialogue, "the phenomenon by which a given text echoes previous texts" (Eco 21). Th

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door is J, who has failed with the skater, the man in the bathroom, the nurse in the elevator. On one level that adds suspense to Alice's admittance, and as that suspense resolves the horror in the overall narrative program amplifies. J's feeding of Alice also problematizes the deontology of vampire films more generally. The whole matter is further complicated by the fact that J's taking of Alice is, after all, not particularly effective; time marches on, and so does J's inexorable aging. C3 uses of the mirror in The Hunger have to do with the narrative memory that informs, lends texture to, and raises the psychoemotional stakes of current action. At OCCs 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 23, and 32, a subtext of narrative exposition and explication emerges: This is how we got where we are and what it means and how we feel about it. C3 images exploit the mirror to help explain the emotional and psychological baggage with which the characters must cope. OCC5, for example, supplies exposition information about how J was first seduced and turned by M. OCC10 has J smashing the mirror, which has been his great friend for 200 years, with the book that explicates scientifically why aging, the enemy of beauty, triumphs, rather as if we must destroy the
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Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page)

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