{"id":1128,"date":"2009-10-30T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2009-10-30T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:44:05","slug":"a-thirst-for-bloodsuckers-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/10\/30\/a-thirst-for-bloodsuckers-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"a thirst for blood(suckers) in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2743\/4053828927_936bc6e5aa_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Halloween Pumpkins\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaweekend.com\/09_issues\/091025\/091025cover-vampires.html\" target=\"_blank\">USA Weekend<\/a>\u00a0recently highlighted the growing fascinatio<a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Kristin Brenemen on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/77009411@N00\/4053828251\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>n that<a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Archie McPhee Seattle on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7423510@N06\/4050923447\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> Americans have with our favorite blood-sucking friends: vampires.\u00a0\u00a0 This phenomenon is underscored by the recent success of the <em>Twilight <\/em>series, HBO&#8217;s second-most watched series ever\u00a0<em>True Blood,\u00a0<\/em>and the popularity\u00a0of the new CW network show <em>The Vampire Diaries<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Karen Sternheimer, sociologist at the University of Southern California, provides commentary:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left\"><p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;One reason for the intense teenage interest in newer stories, especially Anne Rice&#8217;s <em>The Vampire Chronicles<\/em>, <em>Twilight<\/em> and <em>The Vampire Diaries<\/em>, is the sense that the vampires are outsiders among us. In <em>True Blood<\/em>, they&#8217;re simply trying to fit into society. Often, they&#8217;re also seen as more vulnerable and less predatory.\u00a0 Vampires look like us, but they&#8217;re different, and those are experiences that a lot of young people can relate to, especially dealing with not just the physical aspects of relationships when you&#8217;re young but also the emotional aspects, the danger vs. the draw of that so-called &#8216;forbidden love&#8217; that really resonates with a lot of young women.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels (upon which <em>True Blood<\/em> is based), provides additional commentary:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left\"><p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;Vampires never have to go on Social Security, they never have to have a hip replacement, they&#8217;re never going to need bifocals\u00a0 They just won&#8217;t have the problems of aging that humans face, and that&#8217;s very appealing, especially perhaps to Americans.&#8221;<!--a name tag--><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">On that note, pay attention to how many little vampires\u00a0you see roaming the streets tomorrow night.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Weekend\u00a0recently highlighted the growing fascination that Americans have with our favorite blood-sucking friends: vampires.\u00a0\u00a0 This phenomenon is underscored by the recent success of the Twilight series, HBO&#8217;s second-most watched series ever\u00a0True Blood,\u00a0and the popularity\u00a0of the new CW network show The Vampire Diaries. Karen Sternheimer, sociologist at the University of Southern California, provides commentary:\u00a0 &#8220;One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[229,39112,122,129,99,117,100],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-consumption","tag-culture","tag-lifecourse","tag-media","tag-relationships","tag-trends","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}