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Was Dracula Real? How authority, authorship and made up stories continue to make news from something that doesn’t exist.

I’m not a Dracula expert, but I am in the loop of a small group of scholarly vampire enthusiasts and as a PhD candidate in literature, I also know quite a bit about textual readings and the limits of interpretation. [...]

September 3, 2014 Book reviews, Romania

O scrisoare deschisă catre Federaţia Română de Turism şi Servicii

România are o problemă de imagine. În Vest, oamenii asociază România cu regiunea cunoscută drept Transilvania – care trezeşte în minte imagini cu păduri înecate în ceaţă, creaturi supranaturale, castele antice, caleşti purtate de cai şi, desigur,vampiri. Dar în ciuda [...]

July 24, 2014 Uncategorized

“Werewolf: The Beast Among Us”: a new Western Romance Stereotyping Eastern Europeans as Gypsies, Peasants, Drunkards and Idiots

On location in Romania and Transylvania outside Bucharest, Universal Studios shot “Werewolf: The Beast Among Us”. As paranormal fantasy playing off the trendy vampire/werewolf motifs that have their roots in Eastern Europe, this might have seemed like a natural move. [...]

July 20, 2014 Movies