The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula - Softcover

When it was published in 1975, The Vampire Film was the first book in English devoted to the topic of vampire movies. Now newly updated, with a number of chapters covering the intervening two decades, The Vampire Film stands as the best researched and most illuminating book on its subject. In their thematically organized chapters, authors Alain Silver and James Ursini discuss how the movies have created a developing tradition of vampire lore. There is even a chapter on "The Multimedia Vampire." Full of helpful commentaries and loaded with stills from the movies discussed, this book is both good scholarship and an entertaining read.

This revised and updated version of the original 1985 title covers the popular film genre from 1922's silent pioneer, Nosferatu , to 1992's more turkey than bat Bram Stoker's Dracula. The authors present these celluloid plasmaphiles from several perspectives: male, female, Victorian, New Age, cruel, sympathetic, and more. There is also a history of vampire films and an extensive filmography. Though many other genres have died out, the vampire film, much like vampires themselves, seems always to return.
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