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Vadim, Roger, 29

Vagina dentata , 270 , 274 n11

Valens, Ritchie, 110

Valenti, Jack, 197

Vampire narratives, 9

Vampires:

Church's exploitation of, 265 , 273 –74n9;

cinematic representation and, 248 , 258 ;

imaginary quality of, 238 , 239 , 240 , 249 n1;

sexual interpretation of, 263 .

See also Dracula films; Dracula myth

Vande Wiele, Raymond L., 27 –28

The Vanishing (1989, 1992–93), 67 n1

Van Peebles, Mario, 135 –36

Varnhagen, Rahel, 233 n22

Verhoeven, Paul, 37 , 38

Vertigo (1958), 29 , 37 –38, 42 , 43 , 67 , 136

"Viaggio a Tulum" (comic), 292 n6

Vietnam War, 323 –24

Der Vilner Balebesl , 100 , 112 n4

Violence:

African-American stereotype of, 105 ;

cartoon allusion's containment of, 139 –41;

as Wes Craven trademark, 164 –65, 169 , 170 n5;

Hitchcock's representations of, 34 –35, 37 , 38 ;

and sexuality, 41 , 42 –43, 48 , 251 –52

The Virginia Spring (1959), 162 , 164 –66, 166 fig., 167

Vlad the Impaler, 264 , 273 n8

Von Sternberg, Josef, 133

Von Sydow, Max, 164

Vosper, Frank, 54 , 57 fig.

Vuh, Popul, 243 , 244 , 245