Part one of term paper
Attempt to define the vampire genre by tracing it's history. Discuss also the importance of generic conventions and audience expectation. When discussing vampire genre we must first try to define what a genre is. A genre is a particular type of media commodity. It has certain features and characteristics that are recognised by audiences becau ...

Part two of term paper
... not invent the notion of the vampire, his book Dracula is probably the model on which the vampire genre is based. The myth of the vampire being an un-dead creature that roamed the night drinking the blood of the living goes back to ancient Greek times. However Stoker introduced a number of more particular conventions that are usually followed in the vampire genre even today. First published in 1897, the story is told through the diaries of a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, his fiancee Mina, her f ...