The fame of Nosferatu notwithstanding, most of the vampires in silent film were metaphorical and almost all were women. (Almost all.) The concept of a vampire referring to a predatory women was popularized in English by a Philip Burne-Jones painting, which inspired a Rudyard Kipling poem, both entitled The Vampire. Hollywood made vamp films before […]
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