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

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2004

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
384 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781429998451
Related ISBNs:
9780571211586
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
office’s card catalog that two copies of the American hardcover were received in September
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Horror, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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