Mark Sandomirsky. ' Idols teenagers and kidaltov: Vampires as a metaphor '.
Frighten people any evil spirits - that's the way entertainment, practiced in Halloween. Another reason to remember the ' fascination of evil ', in particular, in the images of vampires. Why do terrible draws?.
'Russian Journal '. Editor's note: It soon will be celebrated in Russia seems to be a stranger to our holiday - All Saints' Day, aka Halloween. This - rather a desire to adopt the spirit of fun, but honestly speaking, once again entertain - to arrange that the Russians have long been seen on the screens, but were not able to taste what it's like to dress up in costumes and beg for candy monsters from neighbors. Interestingly, it is possible to find any parallels of political action and Halloween? . And not so interesting.
Much more interesting is that we are actually in full right to adopt, at least outside of the holiday, because for a long time consume products of mass culture of the West. And among them is the vampire theme - movies, books, magazines, concerts.
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Today the idols of society.
And in books and movies - vampires.
Today, the image of a vampire, because of its literary and cinematic promotion, turns into a teen idol (and ' stuck ' in the teenage experiences kidaltov ). Why did this initially frightening image is for the young and attractive teens?.
The first reason - the growth of infantile. Hence the ' remnants of childhood ' obsessive ' grinding ' of children's fears and their associated ' horror stories '. This is the same recipe and one of the popular thrillers that excite imagination and dreams to be in place the characters ' scary ' stories (identification ).
The second reason for the popularity of youth theme of vampirism - a reflection of its inadmissibility. After all taboo, as is known, attracts attention and arouses desire, according to well-known principle: ...
According to the American philosopher Robert Earp, the phenomenon of popularity ' vampire ' topic is related to its homosexual associations, with the illusions and myths created around this theme in society. In fact, according to the minority (aka ' The Vampire ' ), the company receives are not enough (prohibitions and persecutions. ). In the opinion of their opponents, the behavior of minorities ' involvement ' of new followers (as well as ' vampires ') threatens the public.
But there is another aspect of inadmissibility ' vampirism ', Addiction. After all, ' drink blood ' associated with drug addiction - and then ecstasy, obtained from the use of ' product ' and ' special powers ', which allegedly provides, and the ' hunger ' ( abstinence, in common parlance - break ).
Afraid to have fun: Halloween or Vampires 3.