Celluloid Vampires : : Life After Death in the Modern World / / Stacey Abbott.
In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through lite...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun
- PART ONE. Bram Stoker’s Dracula from Novel to Film
- 1. Dracula: A Wonder of the Modern World
- 2. The Cinematic Spectacle of Vampirism: Nosferatu in the Light of New Technology
- 3. From Hollywood Gothic to Hammer Horror: The Modern Evolution of Dracula
- PART TWO. The Birth of the Modern American Vampire
- 4. The Seventies: The Vampire Decade
- 5. George Romero’s Martin: An American Vampire
- 6. Walking Corpses and Independent Filmmaking Techniques
- 7. Special Makeup Effects and Exploding Vampires
- PART THREE. Reconfiguring the Urban Vampire
- 8. New York and the Vampire Flâneuse
- 9. Vampire Road Movies: From Modernity to Postmodernity
- 10. Los Angeles: Fangs, Gangs, and Vampireland
- PART FOUR. Redefining Boundaries
- 11. Vampire Cyborgs
- 12. Vampires in a Borderless World
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index