Vampire cinema : the first one hundred years / Christopher Frayling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frayling, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampire films.

Film posters.

Physical Description:

271 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reel Art Press, 2022.

Summary:

This visual feast celebrates classic vampire cinema, mainstream and niche, through the many colorful ways in which the key films have been marketed and consumed. F.W. Murnau's haunting film Nosferatu had its premiere in Berlin in March 1922. Bram Stoker's widow, Florence, tried hard to sue the production company for breach of copyright but had to settle in the end for a court order to destroy all prints and negatives. The film kept resurrecting, though, and is now considered the first, and one of the greatest, of all vampire movie, the founder of a dynasty of prints of darkness. The bloodline has spread from Nosferatu to Hollywood's Dracula and progeny (1931-48); from Hammer's Dracula/Horror of Dracula and sequels (1958-74) to versions of Sheridan Le Fanu's story 'Carmilla' and other lesbian vampires (1970?2020); from the bestselling novels 'Salem's Lot and Interview with the Vampire to vampires who have shed their capes, hereditary titles and period trappings to become assorted smalltown oddballs, addicts, delinquents, psychopaths, rednecks, fashionistas, gay icons, comedians and even comic-book heroes (1975?2022). This book is dripping with stills, posters, artworks, press books, many of which have not seen the light of day for a very long time, and is authored by cultural historian and connoisseur of the Gothic Christopher Frayling, who has been called 'the Van Helsing de nos jours.'

Contents:

The sleep of reason

Blue blood

Protestant magic

The vampire and the macrobat

Cloak and swagger

Desire with loathing strangely mix'd

The Kingdom of Shadows

A symphony of horror

Strangers in the night, exchanging glances

This thing of darkness

Vampire cinema

Vampire television.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781909526884

1909526886

OCLC:

1346471905

Publisher Number:

99995863049