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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen - Paperback

by David J. Skal
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Availability:In StockContributor:David J. SkalPublish date:2004-10-18Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780571211586ISBN-10:571211585UPC:9780571211586Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, Horror & SupernaturalBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.38 x 5.66 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC137DYS66

A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek).

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 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.

includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780571211586ISBN-10:571211585UPC:9780571211586Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, Horror & SupernaturalBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.38 x 5.66 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC137DYS66
David J. Skal (1952 - 2024) was the author several critically acclaimed books on fantastic literature and genre cinema, including The Monster Show; Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen; Screams of Reason; Mad Science and Modern Culture; V Is for Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead; and, with Elias Savada, Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning. With Nina Auerbach, he co-edited the Norton Critical Edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula. His writing appeared in a variety of publications, ranging from The New York Times to Cinefantastique, and for television, on the A&E series Biography. He wrote, produced, and directed a dozen original DVD documentaries, including features on the Universal Studios' classic monster movies, and a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Academy Award-winning film Gods and Monsters. He lived in Los Angeles
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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