"This Girl Changed the Story of the World": Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTV's Carmilla.
This article investigates the intersection of adaptations of narrative content and form as exemplified in the KindaTV YouTube series Carmilla (2014–2016), a contemporary revisioning of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 vampire novella of the same name. By contextualizing Le Fanu's text within the emerg...
| Publicado en: | Humanities (2076-0787) Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 42 - 53 |
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