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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

Skal, David J.

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

Publisher Price: $26.99

ISBN10: 0571211585
ISBN13: 9780571211586
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Oct 18 2004
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.07
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.38
Language: English

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.

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