The Rise & Fall of the "Teen Vampire" (ft. @QualityCulture)

From “The Lost Boys” to “Twilight” – when did vampires make for such popular teen stars? ✨🧛‍♂🩸 Featuring Stef from Quality Culture! Features spoilers for The Lost Boys (1987), Let Me In (2010) and Twilight (2008). - 🕥TIMESTAMPS:🕜 0:00 - Intro 0:52 - Historical symbolism of vampires 4:40 - The Lost Boys & the birth of teen vamps 12:16 - Let Me In and teenage angst 18:16 - Troubling implications (The Lost Boys/Let Me In) 20:16 - The Twilight Craze (feat. Stef/Quality Culture) 33:30 - Teen vampires today - ✨ FOLLOW ME IG:   / anaisabelcosplays   ✨ - All third-party clips and images are Fair Use/Fair Dealing under copyright law (transformative under criticism/review/commentary/news reporting). Australian copyright law on “Fair Dealing”: https://www.copyright.org.au/acc_prod... I do not own The Lost Boys (1987), Let Me In (2010), Twilight (2008), and any of the other films mentioned in this video. US copyright law on "Fair Use": https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/mo... - 📚Main Readings Used:📚 The Evolution of the Vampire “Other”: Symbols of Difference from Folklore to Millennial Literature – Buckley, Kate (2016) https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewco... The Lost Boys’ Subtly Radical Vision of Family – Tensley, Brandon (2017) https://www.theatlantic.com/entertain... Blood Lust: Adolescent Sexuality and Personal Conflict in The Lost Boys – Gonzalez, Alejandra https://talkfilmsociety.com/columns/b... 30 Years Ago, The Lost Boys Introduced Me to Queer Cinema – Leyva, Alcy (2017) https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/20... The Evolution of the Vampire in Fiction and Popular Culture – Shepherd, Annie (2010) https://www.lagrange.edu/resources/pd... The Story of Twilight & Getting Published – Meyer, Stephenie https://stepheniemeyer.com/the-story-... Hot Teen Vampires And Werewolves: How Did They Start, And More Importantly, Who Gets The Girl? – Frankel, Valerie Estelle (2016) https://thoughtcatalog.com/valerie-es... Friday essay: why YA gothic fiction is booming - and girl monsters are on the rise – Smith, Michelle (2018) https://theconversation.com/friday-es... “I Was Only Human”: Puberty Crisis, Self Identity and Vampire Movies in Religious Context – Komarakis, Konstantinos (2015) https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... #vampires #twilight #thelostboys #twilightrenaissance