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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

“…As Pirie remarks of these lms, 'Both concern small Cornish communities threatened by a kind of alien and inexplicable plague which has been imported from the East via a corrupt aristocracy: both are, by implication at least, violently anti-colonial.' 16 In this context, Legend's representation of the East seems thoroughly ambivalent. The East is sympatheticall y portrayed even as ultimate evil is associated with a gure of Western colonialism ; yet it is also seen as powerless without Western knowledge and aid.…”