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Cultural Anxiety In Bram Stoker's Buffy: Traditional Gothic And Contemporary Culture

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In current news, there is a fear of over-governmenting, fake news, and the collapse of our planet’s wellbeing. These can be found in other generations before us but other fears were more overwhelming. These fears that differ among generations can be considered a cultural anxiety that reflects the societal views of that specific time as Michelle Callandar states in Bram Stoker’s Buffy: Traditional Gothic and Contemporary Culture– “Gothic fictions have, since their inceptions, provided a vehicle for conceptualizing a variety cultural anxieties into imaginative form.” In TV and Film, many characters represent ideas in the real world. Many plotlines involve an outside force, an “other”, to challenge the main character in a physical and/or mental
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