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	Sexual or Erotic Films
		These kinds of films often appeal to the emotions of the viewer, with their emphasis on pleasure, physical desire, and human companionship.
		Films of romance with heart-throb sexy lead characters may have sexual elements, but these are often secondary to the main plot goal - the search and attainment of love.
		This titillating short 20-second film, with a close-up of a kiss, was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship.
	www.filmsite.org /sexualfilms.html (1897 words)

	Blade film review In Film Australia
		Upon lining up to purchase tickets for this film, my friends and I were approached by a group of young teenagers, probably between the ages of eleven and thirteen, who asked us kindly to buy them some tickets as well.
		Of course, they were not permitted to see this film due to the films age restrictions, so they were basically asking us to allow them entry into a film they were forbidden to see.
		At the beginning of the film, we learn that a pregnant woman has been bitten by a vampire, and supposedly dies, while having her baby removed by incision.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/blade.htm (595 words)

	Theda Bara: Vamp
		Although the film was quickly shot and Theda was uneasy with the new medium at first, the film proved to be one of the biggest hits of the year.
		Although she originally seemed to savor the vamp role, a number of times Bara remarked that she was "not particularly happy" about being a vamp, contradicting both her actions and her other comments (qtd.
		In fact, when the crew on The Clemenceau Case (1915) began calling her "vamp" as a nickname, Theda "was proud of her new title." However, in a year or two, she grew tired of the label, viewing it instead as a "harness" to her career (Golden 55).
	www.lycos.com /info/theda-bara--vamp.html (564 words)

	Theda Bara
		She was nicknamed "The Vamp", short for vampire, slang for a sexy predatory woman at the time.
		Bara was a sex symbol of the [golden] era, and in a number of her films appeared in risqué transparent costumes that left little to the imagination.
		Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the Hays Code went into effect a few years later, which may have been a factor in declining interest in her films, which could no longer be commercially shown in the United States.
	www.jahsonic.com /ThedaBara.html (637 words)

	kamera.co.uk - feature article - Sex and the Screen: the Theda Bara story - The Woman With The Hungry Eyes: The World's ...
		Using mostly 19th century gestures to convey her emotions, she was apparently a very convincing Vampire, popularising the word 'vamp' to signify man-eating female predators with limitless pools of lust and greed.
		Their narrative thread is chronological, hopping from one film to the next, which gets a bit predictable after a while.
		Her subsequent film and theater projects and later projects about her never went off the ground, which is also not explained in the film.
	www.kamera.co.uk /features/the_woman_with_the_hungry_eyes_the_worlds_first_vamp_on_film.php (884 words)

	Sexual or Erotic Films
		Films of romance with heart-throb sexy lead characters may have sexual elements, but these are often secondary to the main plot goal - the search and attainment of love.
		The very first kiss on film was between a Victorian couple seen in the Edison kinetoscope The May Irwin Kiss (1896) (aka The Kiss, or The Irwin-Rice Kiss in a filmed scene from the stage play The Widow Jones).
		This titillating short 20-second film, with a close-up of a kiss, was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship.
	filmsite.org /sexualfilms.html (1618 words)

	rediff.com US edition: In search of a vamp
		The fantasies of a little girl star-struck by movies -- with idols ranging from Bollywood vamps to Hollywood tomboys -- are interwoven with images of her mother's life, an isolated housewife in a wintry Quebec town, job-hunting with a resume and an Indian accent.
		The vamp is who I identify with, because she has fun, yet fun and freedom doesn't last forever, and comes with a dear price -- her demise.
		And as we know, the vamp was phased out in Hindi cinema, but she has returned in spurts here and there in the movies but not in the prolific way as in the days of Helen -- the queen of vamps!" says Marjara.
	www.rediff.com /us/2000/apr/24us1.htm (1486 words)

	Pola Negri Frequently Asked Questions FAQ FAQ's
		Now if you want to see a real silent screen vamp, I recommend Nita Naldi, who played her vamp roles to the hilt throughout the 1920’s and was about as serpentine a vamp as you’ll see on the silent screen.
		Pola was generally considered a tragic dramatic actress and a costume film actress during her early German peiod.
		Pola voluntarily chose not to renew her contract with Paramount and to retire from films because she was, at the time, an expectant mother and wanted to devote her life to raising a family.
	www.polanegri.com /polafaq.htm (3704 words)

	Exposed: The film industry’s 100-year love affair with Carmen
		SHE was the first film 'vamp', has been a fl bisexual and a Tom and Jerry cartoon character, appeared in country and western guise, and played for laughs with Charlie Chaplin.
		Film makers in this century continue to be seduced by the Carmen story, with two films released in 2001.
		Spanish film director, Vicente Aranda, is filming his version and some newspapers have said singer and actress Jennifer Lopez will star in and produce an update version of Carmen, with a script reportedly written by Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann's screenwriting partner on Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet and Strictly Ballroom.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-06/uonu-et062402.php (1200 words)

	Horrordvds.com - Vamp DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Still working on it.) While it may not seem fair to compare Vamp to other movies of a similar nature, when you make a movie that relies on standard movie legends and myths, it has to be able to stand up to comparison.
		Well, the film itself may not be special, but the presentation on this Anchor Bay DVD is outstanding.
		While I'm not much a fan of this film, I'm sure that somewhere there is someone who considers this the finest film ever made.
	www.horrordvds.com /reviews/n-z/vamp (1368 words)

	Slow Trains Literary Journal
		In only one of Bara's four surviving films does she play the vamp role for which she was acclaimed.
		In this sense, worshippers of silent film are the truest decadents of all, since more than 80% of American films made during the first twenty-five years of cinema are lost forever.
		Vamp is a celebration of Theda Bara, and therefore a monument to both the ephemeral and the eternal: the mortality of man and woman and the immortality of desire.
	www.slowtrains.com /issue3/puccinelliissue3.html (786 words)

	Film Industry/Latinas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Due to the fact that silent film only "spoke" through images to all nations, non-Anglo ethnic groups were able to play a major role in early filmmaking.
		The reason why Latina actresses during the silent film era did not have to change their names was because they attained prior "recognition" or were at least known for the roles they played on stage (Noriega, 1992).
		Although racial attitudes were reflected in films since the silent era, systematic discrimination took time to develop.
	www.skidmore.edu /~g_bluemi/film_industry.htm (530 words)

	Carol Channing - Music Downloads - Online
		Channing appeared in her first film, with a small part in the drama Paid in Full in 1950.
		In 1956, she was in the film comedy The First Traveling Saleslady.
		Channing appeared on television in the late 1960s and '70s, while touring and performing around the world in a series of musicals, plays, and revues that included Carol Channing with Her Stout-Hearted Men (1970), Four on a Garden (1971), Cabaret (1972), Festival at Ford's (1972), and Carol Channing and Her Gentlemen Who Prefer Blondes (1972).
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/391/Carol-Channing/1007528.html (509 words)

	hoopla.nu - film reviews, opinion and more
		That none of these contribute to a sense of the village's importance to the making of Markos is confusing at best, and the final crisis that will define him is rooted in such silliness it is hard to believe the drama.
		There are maybe two half-second shots where I felt they were stretched past their limitations, but for the majority of the time the beast looked astoundingly realistic.
		The treatment of the earlier sequences allows the nature of these men and their world to be realistically brought to life.
	hoopla.nu (457 words)

	Media Info Center
		For more than 110 years, since movies were invented, frames of film have moved in front of an illuminated lens, creating the illusion that we are watching "motion" pictures.
		Televisa signed a partnership agreement last week with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., an independent studio known for horror franchises such as "Saw," according to people close to the arrangement who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the record.
		Putting the finishing touches to a drastic, four-year digital makeover, Kodak is still betting that film, its cash cow for a century, will continue to generate enough revenue to see it through the most painful passage in its 126-year history.
	www.mediainfocenter.org /film/filmcategories.asp (1480 words)

	FANBOY PLANET.com .: cg-vampiresanonymous :.
		The Cinequest film festival is usually a place for films about gay folks struggling for acceptance and masturbation, without a single film to appeal to the fanboys of the world.
		Flying back and forth to LA for meetings with his sponsor, Vic is shown as a confused vamp who's not sure if he can actually live a regular life.
		Copyrights and trademarks for existing entertainment (film, TV, comics, wrestling) properties are held by their respective owners and are used with permission or for promotional purposes of said properties.
	www.fanboyplanet.com /movies/cg-vampiresanonymous.php (690 words)

	Article on Vampire Bats from the making of "Vampire" film by Adrian Warren : page 1 of 6
		All over the world there are legends about bloodsucking vampires, legends that can be traced through history as far back as the ancient Egyptians and Romans, and are a result of man's preoccupation with death and the supernatural.
		The very meaning of the word 'vamp' is a woman: an adventuress who exploits men.
		According to a New York psychiatrist who studies fears and phobias, the evil image shared universally by bats can be linked to old women who try to dominate their men; the kind of woman, one supposes, often referred to as an 'old bat'.
	www.lastrefuge.co.uk /data/articles/bats/Vampire_Bat_article_page1.html (535 words)

	vamp.html
		By implication then, the vampire film is a subject of established ritual and shifting and variable emphasis.
		Vampire films transcend those common labels; they belong to the cinefantastique, or the cinema of the fantastic, which combines the literature of imagination with the mystique of motion picture technology.
		The key to most of these films is that man, by tinkering with the natural order of the universe, unleashes a horrible pestilence (in the form of vampires) upon those around him.
	www.towson.edu /~flynn/vamp.html (3097 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine / Cinema : On the verge of extinction
		Perhaps the first advertising model to break the film barrier was Zeenat Aman in the 1970s, but today every film star is a model and frequently continues her modelling career even after appearing in movies.
		Never mind the vamp, even the extra or the "junior artiste" in Hindi cinema (the group dancer accompanying the heroine) is from a professional class today.
		When Aishwarya Rai first arrived in Hindi cinema with the dreadful film, "Jeans", her walk was the "runway walk", her talk was the "baby doll" talk and she would move her head, not in response to movie dialogue, but to the superior camera angle.
	www.hinduonnet.com /mag/2005/06/19/stories/2005061900110500.htm (1161 words)

	Vamp (woman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vamp is a colloquial term applied to describe a particular type of femme fatale, popular in silent films.
		From the perspective of American film audiences, she is often seen as foreign, usually of undetermined Eastern European or Asian ancestry.
		Among the notable vamps of the silent screen were Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, Musidora, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, and in her earliest film appearances, Myrna Loy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vamp_(woman) (227 words)

	VampsNFilm
		The significance to film is that any such myth or legend affects its culture and in turn its literature; besides some ancient and the Balkan tales, the Western culture adopted the Vampire as a tragic romantic figure as in Lord Byron's vampire in "The Giaour" and John Polidori's, "The Vampyre" in the early 1800's.
		This production is significant in that this type of cinema is where the term ‘moving pictures’ came from—for the images were not on film but on ‘pictures’ that flipped in sequence as you either ‘cranked’ the machine or after depositing a coin, a small electric motor would flip the pictures.
		The final significance to this ‘moving picture’ is the fact that the Vampire film as seen as a sub-genre today, actually began the Horror genre one year before the Stoker’s celebrated Vampire novel was even printed.
	www.uh.edu /~hkbigley/2321/holloway/VampsNFilm.htm (807 words)

	Vamp - Musical Instruments - MusicalSpot.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		VAMP has much more going for it than most of the 1980's wave of slashy trashy horror films.
		Vamp pre-dates the string of stripper vampire movies of the 90's (From Dusk Till Dawn & Bordello of Blood) and it - despite of its obvious flaws - does manage to provide some solid, campy, entertainment.
		Vamp is a delightfully great movie, its sense of humor is what makes it stand out from other great vampire movies of the decade.
	www.musicalspot.com /product/B00005KHJL-Vamp.html (1011 words)

	papermcdaniel
		For the viewers of the vamp, this ambivalence lies within their unwitting draw towards yet moral repugnance by the vamp and her actions; for the viewers of the child, this ambivalence lies within their "fearless" protection of innocence by rescuing children from dangerous situations.
		The vamp was consequently not an alien topic to Barnes; some pictures of Barnes show how she adopted some aspects of the vamp's dress: dark makeup, thick rouge, grandiose hats, and dark clothing.
		Next, "The Vamp's Child, The Child's Vamp: A Fool There Was" investigates the strangely parallel narratives of Theda Bara's vamp and her eventual victim's daughter in the film.
	case.edu /artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/papermcdaniel.htm (6887 words)

	Cork Film Centre - About Us Page
		Cork Film Centre is a resource-based organisation, focused on developing, promoting and facilitating people working creatively in the medium of the moving image.
		In 2001 Cork Film Centre established VAMP (Video Art Mentoring Project), through which artist and educator Nigel Rolfe engaged in a hands-on projects with a number of emerging artists, mentoring them in the production of new work, and culminating in the exhibition of their works.
		The Irish film sector has grown dramatically in recent years, and this growth is reflected in the Cork region.
	www.corkfilmcentre.com /about.htm (599 words)

	CityBeat: Couch Potato (2002-04-04)
		There are some silent films and silent stars that have stood the test of time.
		Bara, born Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnati, was the original movie vamp, thanks to her sultry performance in A Fool There Was.
		In the film, she plays a French café dancer who plots revenge against the high society gentleman who shot her boyfriend during a robbery.
	www.citybeat.com /2002-04-04/filmcouchpot.shtml (739 words)

	Navarro's Silent Film Guide - Movie Reviews - A Fool There Was
		In the film, the vamp's prey is John Schuyler (Edward José), a happily-married, respectable career diplomat who is sent to Europe on a brief mission.
		For 21st century audiences, the film's mise en scène is instructive, especially when contrasted to another famous 1915 movie, The Birth of a Nation.
		She plays the vamp with an elegant cruelty that torments the man's very soul; a cruelty that, no doubt, would inspire later seductresses—Greta Garbo in the silent era, Sharon Stone and Glenn Close in the talkies—to be much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.
	www.billyates.com /navarro/reviews/afooltherewas.shtml (708 words)

	papermcdaniel
		For the viewers of the vamp, this ambivalence lies within their unwitting draw towards yet moral repugnance by the vamp and her actions; for the viewers of the child, this ambivalence lies within their "fearless" protection of innocence by rescuing children from dangerous situations.
		The vamp was consequently not an alien topic to Barnes; some pictures of Barnes show how she adopted some aspects of the vamp's dress: dark makeup, thick rouge, grandiose hats, and dark clothing.
		Next, "The Vamp's Child, The Child's Vamp: A Fool There Was" investigates the strangely parallel narratives of Theda Bara's vamp and her eventual victim's daughter in the film.
	www.case.edu /artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/papermcdaniel.htm (6887 words)

	The Vampire Film
		The Third and most recent edition of The Vampire Film featuring a new chapter, "The Vampire at the Millennium," was released in October 1996 to coincide with the centennial of Stoker's novel Dracula.
		All the filmographic information from the latest versions of The Vampire Film is available on-line: Part One and Part Two from the Second Edition and the complete Additional Filmography from the Third Edition.
		Those interested in the vampire film are invited to review the Additional Filmography and send suggestions for new titles, added credits, or other comments to the authors.
	members.aol.com /vampyrfilm/index.htm (355 words)

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