Celluloid Vampires Life after Death in the Modern World

Name: Celluloid Vampires Life after Death in the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780292716964

ISBN-10: 0292716966

ISBN-13: 9780292716964

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stacey Abbott

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In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Meacute;liegrave;s brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable . The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula . How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 12/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.04" wide x 8.99" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun



Bram Stoker's Dracula from Novel to Film



Dracula: A Wonder of the Modern World



The Cinematic Spectacle of Vampirism: Nosferatu in the Light of New Technology



From Hollywood Gothic to Hammer Horror: The Modern Evolution of Dracula



The Birth of the Modern American Vampire



The Seventies: The Vampire Decade



George Romero's Martin: An American Vampire



Walking Corpses and Independent Filmmaking Techniques



Special Makeup Effects and Exploding Vampires



Reconfiguring the Urban Vampire



New York and the Vampire Flaneuse



Vampire Road Movies: From Modernity to Postmodernity



Los Angeles: Fangs, Gangs, and Vampireland



Redefining Boundaries



Vampire Cyborgs



Vampires in a Borderless World


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Filmography


Index