{VIRTUAL} VAMPIRE LOVE STORIES: BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA AND ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

Name: {VIRTUAL} VAMPIRE LOVE STORIES: BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA AND ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Start: 2025-10-21T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-10-21T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Ritualcravt

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Ritualcravt | Wheat Ridge, CO

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Having taught several classes on these films apart from one another, I thought that in honor of the current Halloween season I would offer a class covering both Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) and Only Lovers Left Alive (Dir. Jim Jarmusch), focusing in particular on the love stories at the heart of each film. Each story incorporates captivating themes, such as forbidden love and cursed immortality, as well as fairy-tale motifs and archetypes. In fact, just as the world of fairy tales contains both classic and contemporary variants, Count Dracula and Mina Harker’s love story is “classic”, while Adam and Eve’s is “contemporary”, utilizing post-modern elements and deconstructing various source texts. I’ll be talking about intertextuality, looking at how each film references and reimagines literary inspirations, costume design, setting and atmosphere, and what it is about these iconic relationships that holds us in thrall year after year, sending us back for repeat viewings of our comfort films in which “Love never dies.”

YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Susan Redington Bobby, the founder of Professor of Words, LLC, is an online teacher, a freelance editor, a writing mentor, and a tutor. Her specialty is being able to read people on a deeper level through their writing, and she has recently completed a certificate course on integrative somatic trauma therapy. She is a retired professor of English with expertise in fairy tales, adolescent literature, goddess archetypes, magical realism, creative writing, and film studies. She is the author of Beyond His Dark Materials, the editor of Fairy Tales Reimagined, and co-editor of The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture. The Series Editor of Tales from Fiddler’s Green, she also occasionally publishes creative fiction. She is currently studying the Bardic Course in Druidry from OBOD. She maintains Mellie’s Grove, a certified NWF backyard wildlife habitat that is home to a rescued and small stabilized cat family and all manner of wildlife.