Question

Drawing on your results from the 1st quiz those changes you had noted in the film version of Interview with the Vampire how might we keep George Haggerty s basic model of the vampire as the very thing our contemporary culture both desires and fears and yet modify his conclusion that the basis of this desire and fear is the gay male of this culture?

In short, we need to fill in the following sentence: The object, theme or phenomenon which contemporary culture both desires and fears, as represented by the vampire in the film Interview with the Vampire is/are______________________. We will

Answer 1

Drawing on your results from the 1st quiz those changes you had noted in the film version of Interview with the Vampire how might we keep George Haggerty s basic model of the vampire as the very thing our contemporary culture both desires and fears and yet modify his conclusion that the basis of this desire and fear is the gay male of this culture?

In short, we need to fill in the following sentence: The object, theme or phenomenon which contemporary culture both desires and fears, as represented by the vampire in the film Interview with the Vampire is/are______________________. We will use those changes we ve tracked the explicit objective changes, e.g. in plot, characters, etc, as well as the implicit subjective changes, e.g. a shift of thematic emphasis or focus as evidence for our conclusion. Please limit yourself to 4 sentences in your response.

Answer 2

Can someone explain in layman's term what this question wants? I just don't get it. Like translate the question into a more understandable form please

Answer 3

@nincompoop,@ganeshie8 if you don't mind taking a look, could you?

Answer 4

this is the article i question if needed http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0029-5132%28199823%2932%3A1%3C5%3AARATQO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
but I do not want any form of answer, just a re-explanation of the question.

Answer 5

@ganeshie8
(You didn't tag him properly xD)

If I may take a gander, I think that one of the themes would be morality/humanity (the sense of it).

Answer 6

Dude, I would totally help you if I understood any of it myself.

Answer 7

could you provide an example in regards to a different book of this question? @kittiwitti1 ?
I just don't get what it wants

Answer 8

thanks Kyan :)

Answer 9

I'm not sure what you're asking ;-;

Answer 10

so like, if you were to answer this in terms of Harry Potter, what do you think the answer would be?

Answer 11

and we could say as represented by the death eaters or wizards or similar

Answer 12

@bngaure

Answer 13

Hmmm.
It seems I've misunderstood the question.
Sorry, but I don't think I can help here...I'm not that familiar with the film. ;-;

Answer 14

darn, ok, thanks anyways

Answer 15

I mean use any book/movie combo you are familiar with. It's the question itself I don't get, not the content. So like if you dumb it down, I could probably give an answer

Answer 16

(Sorry, had to copy-paste for easy reference)

'how might we keep George Haggerty's basic model of the vampire as the very thing our contemporary culture both desires and fears and yet modify his conclusion that the basis of this desire and fear is the gay male of this culture?'

'both desires and fears'
Oh hey, a paradox! That might mean something!

While I have no idea what 'gay male of THIS CULTURE' means, I take it that somewhere in the film there are reference(s) to anti-LGBT views, cleverly hidden.

So, I think the question might be asking:
'Based on the results you got from the first quiz, how might we keep Haggerty's idea that the vampire is the very thing modern culture wants and does not want, but change his conclusion that the foundation or origin of this representation is the gay male of this culture?'

The part after the last comma, elaborated - 'How would it change Haggerty's conclusion that the vampire represents the gay male (of this culture?)'

Sorry if I made it more confusing D:

Answer 17

Basically I think the question is asking how you can keep the vampire as 'the thing you want the most and despise the most' but change or make improvements to the idea that 'the vampire, as such a desired yet feared creature, is merely a manifest representation of similar views on the gay male in our modern society' (I'm not so sure about the modern society part though).

Answer 18

Did that help? :\

Answer 19

OH! Yes, it does! Thank you!!!

Answer 20

I felt like I accomplished a big goal in life when you said that. Maybe it's because you have a higher SmartScore.
You're welcome! xD

Answer 21

lol, I'm happy you feel that way. I'm more mathematically minded, so wordy things tend to confuse me. Thanks again!