| Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen Contributor(s): Skal, David J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0571211585 ISBN-13: 9780571211586 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting 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 shapeshift into a bat, 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 Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2004046959 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.66" W x 8.38" (1.07 lbs) 384 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting 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 shapeshift into a bat, 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 Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. |
Contributor Bio(s): Skal, David J.: - David J. Skal is the author of numerous books on popular culture, including The Monster Show and Death Makes a Holiday. He is the co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula. |