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The first academic book devoted to vampires in silent cinema
Author : Gary D. Rhodes
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781399525749
The first academic book devoted to vampires in silent cinema
Author : David Annwn Jones
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3031386434
This book is the first study of the vampires in silent cinema, presenting a detailed academic yet accessible discussion of the films themselves and their sources. For the very first time, The Fire Elemental from the Wharton brothers’ The Mysteries of Myra (1916) is identified as cinema’s original vampire, his appearance initiating a rich and variegated period of film production that is currently missing from studies of horror cinema. Exciting and ground-breaking, Vampires on the Silent Screen also discusses Drakula Halála / Dracula’s death (1920), the first ever filmic female vampire in Erich Kober’s Lilith and Ly (1919), and the Dracula lookalike, Count Merlin in Alexander Korda’s Magic (1917) as well as many other productions. A socio-cultural framework with critical highlighting of eco-horror theory is used throughout to draw these unique discoveries together. This project is a must read for any horror enthusiasts out there.
Author : Adam Woog
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Vampire films
ISBN : 1601522118
Vampire movies have a long and rich history, from what was probably the first one (in 1896), through the classics of the early-twentieth century (Nosferatu, Bela Lugosi's version of Dracula), and on to the present-day mania for Twilight and other modern takes. In between there have been hundreds of versions and variations, including American Sign Language vampires, comedies, space vampires, and much more. This book explores the lore of vampire films, why they remain perennially popular with audiences, and themes that run through the history of these cinematic bloodsuckers.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1982-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0394848284
String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.
Author : James Aubrey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476676739
Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night, among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.
Author : Michael Guarneri
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474458130
Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975.
Author : Jennifer Bringle
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1448812267
Traces the history of vampires in movies and television.
Author : Andrea Weiss
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Homosexuality in motion pictures
ISBN :
Andrea Weiss reclaims the lesbian film heritage from early silent cinema to the Hollywood of yesteryear to today's art and independent cinema. She takes on Hollywood and how Tinsel Town exploits lesbian characters in its films. She looks at the appeal of stars to lesbian audiences. She explores camp, gives a view of vampire films in their gory detail and tests out her ideas upon readers who will also be film buffs. She also gives attention to modern film directors like Chantal Akerman, Su Friedrich, Marlene Gorris and Ulrike Ottinger.
Author : Gary A. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147662559X
The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies--always a cinema staple--were no exception. Spurred by the worldwide success of Hammer Film's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969), vampire movies filled theaters for the next ten years--from the truly awful to bonafide classics. Audiences took the good with the bad and came back for more. Providing a critical review of the genre's overlooked Golden Age, this book explores a mixed bag from around the world, including The Vampire Lovers (1970), Dracula Versus Frankenstein (1971), Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973), 'Salem's Lot (1975), Dracula Sucks (1978) and Love at First Bite (1979) and many others.
Author : Dale Hudson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474423094
The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims' blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises. In Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa. As the vampire's popularity has swelled, vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity not always addressed in realist modes. Here, teen vampires comfort misunderstood youth, chador-wearing skateboarder vampires promote transnational feminism, African American and Mexican American vampires recover their repressed histories. Looking at contemporary hits like True Blood, Twilight, Underworld and The Strain, classics such as Universal's Dracula and Dracula, and miscegenation melodramas like The Cheat and The Sheik, the book reconfigures Hollywood historiography and tradition as fundamentally transnational, offering fresh interpretations of vampire media as trans-genre sites for political contestation.