The Changing Vampire of Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Growth of a Genre - Tim Kane

Vampires have been a fixture of film since Bela Lugosi brought Bram Stoker's Dracula to life on the big screen in 1931. Over the decades vampire narratives have changed and evolved with the appetites of their viewers. First depicted as formally dressed villains, vampires were later portrayed a supernatural beings with some human characteristics, and still later as sympathetic figures.