Ep. 53: Dracula's Daughter (1936) - Lesbian Power

Well hello there! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the direct sequel to Universal Studios Dracula (1931). Dracula's Daughter may have been a flop upon release but as the trailer suggests... "IT'S MORE EXCITING THAN DRACULA!" We'd have to agree! Who doesn't love an artistic and powerful lesbian vampire!? --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some delicious coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com ---- Resources: Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema by Rhona J. Berenstein. Columbia University Press. 1996. Queer Horror: Decoding Universal’s Monsters by Gary Morris https://brightlightsfilm.com/queer-horror-decoding-universals-monsters/#.XP_QZZNKiu4 Dracula’s Daughter by Gary D. Rhodes https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B07C7H8C25 How the vampire became film’s most feminist monster by Genevieve Valentine https://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/964-how-the-vampire-became-films-most-feminist-monster/ The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part One by Doris V. Sutherland https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2016/10/life-times-marya-zaleska-draculas-daughter-part-one/ The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part Two by Doris V. Sutherland https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2016/10/life-times-marya-zaleska-draculas-daughter-part-two/ Like a Woman Rising from a Tomb: Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and the Fin de Siècle by Samm Deighan https://diaboliquemagazine.com/like-a-woman-rising-from-a-tomb-draculas-daughter-1936-and-the-fin-de-siecle/ CODED QUEERNESS IN DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) by ELIZABETH ERWIN http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/coded-queerness-in-draculas-daughter-1936/ Looking Back at 'Dracula's Daughter,' the 1936 Monster Movie That's Really About Love and Lesbians by Colin Flemming https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd7993/looking-back-at-draculas-daughter-the-erotic-1936-film-thats-really-about-lesbians Dracula’s Daughter (1936) Review https://andyoucallyourselfascientist.com/2018/02/22/draculas-daughter-1936/ Daughters of the Darkness - Lesbian Vampire Before and After the Hays Code by Lili Hornyai https://www.academia.edu/4854666/Daughters_of_the_Darkness_-_Lesbian_Vampire_Before_and_After_the_Hays_Code Final Girl: Father was a Dracula http://www.finalgirl.rocks/2010/08/drac.html How Horror Thwarted ‘The Code’ By ELIZABETH ERWIN https://glreview.org/article/how-horror-thwarted-the-code/ Dracula’s Daughter Review by Will Kend https://shadowsinfilm.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/draculas-daughter-film-article-3/ Conversion Therapy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aversion%20therapy Gay Conversion Therapy's Disturbing 19th-Century Origins https://www.history.com/news/gay-conversion-therapy-origins-19th-century The Feminists Making Vampires Gay Again https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-feminists-making-vampires-gay-again Feminist Fangs: The Activist Symbolism of Violent Vampire Women http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/10/feminist-fangs-the-activist-symbolism-of-violent-vampire-women.html#.XQWa1PlKhBw