Vampira by W. Scott Poole;

Author:W. Scott Poole;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619024205
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2018-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

American film had allowed women to be the bad girl, but only if the narrative punished them. West created an enormously powerful female presence that refused the punishment that a male-dominated society wanted to mete out to women who stepped out of line.

Reviewers frequently compared West favorably to other powerful women of the screen like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. In the 1930s, a writer for Photoplay described West as satirizing and “making our old fashioned vampires, those mysterious pallid, emaciated, smokey eyed females, appear as futile as they usually are in real life.” The influential magazine Motion Picture called West “the first real Waterloo of the Garbo and Dietrich schools of sultry.”

Nurmi borrowed Mae West’s style to create something even more alluring. Unlike West, Vampira was certainly “mysterious, pallid, emaciated” and embodied some of Garbo and Dietrich’s sinister ostentation and overwhelming sense of dignity. And yet, she mixed this with sexy, quirky humor, laughter at the expectations of middle-class mores that enabled her to make even death a big joke. She was Dietrich with a pet spider, Garbo popping hilariously out of a coffin, and yet also Mae West as Lord and Lady of Darkness, campy and sexy as hell.

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