Hollywood gothic : the tangled web of Dracula from novel to stage to screen / David J. Skal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skal, David J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula.

Stoker, Bram.

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Adaptations.

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Film adaptations.

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.

Adaptations.

Horror tales, English--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English.

Vampire films--History and criticism.

Vampire films.

Dracula, Count (Fictitious character).

Dracula.

Vampires in literature.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Faber and Faber, 2004.

Summary:

The primal image of the black-caped vampire has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. Its recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus, and without prompting most of us can recite the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shape-shift into a bat, a wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian Literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.

Notes:

Originally published in 1990 by W.W. Norton & Company

Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-346) and index.

ISBN:

0571211585

OCLC:

54775129