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Author Abbott, Stacey.
Title Celluloid vampires : life after death in the modern world / Stacey Abbott.
Publication Info Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.


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Contents Introduction: A little less ritual and a little more fun. PART ONE. Bram Stoker's Dracula from novel to film. Dracula: a wonder of the modern world -- The cinematic spectacle of vampirism: Nosferatu in the light of new technology -- From Hollywood gothic to hammer horror: the modern evolution of Dracula. PART TWO. The birth of the modern American vampire. The Seventies: the vamire decade -- George Romero's Martin: an American vampire -- Walking corpses and independent filmmaking techniques -- Special makeup effects and exploding vampires. PART THREE. Reconfiguring the urban vampire. New York and the vampire flaneuse -- Vampire road movies: from modernity to postmodernity -- Los Angeles: fangs, gangs, and vampireland. PART FOUR. Redefining boundaries. Vampire cyborgs -- Vampires in a borderless world.
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9780292716957
0292716958
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Author Abbott, Stacey.
Subject Vampire films -- History and criticism.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
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Contents Introduction: A little less ritual and a little more fun. PART ONE. Bram Stoker's Dracula from novel to film. Dracula: a wonder of the modern world -- The cinematic spectacle of vampirism: Nosferatu in the light of new technology -- From Hollywood gothic to hammer horror: the modern evolution of Dracula. PART TWO. The birth of the modern American vampire. The Seventies: the vamire decade -- George Romero's Martin: an American vampire -- Walking corpses and independent filmmaking techniques -- Special makeup effects and exploding vampires. PART THREE. Reconfiguring the urban vampire. New York and the vampire flaneuse -- Vampire road movies: from modernity to postmodernity -- Los Angeles: fangs, gangs, and vampireland. PART FOUR. Redefining boundaries. Vampire cyborgs -- Vampires in a borderless world.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780292794696 (e-book)
029279469X (e-book)
9780292716957
0292716958
9780292716964 (pbk.)
0292716966 (pbk.)
Author Abbott, Stacey.
Subject Vampire films -- History and criticism.

Subject Vampire films -- History and criticism.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Introduction: A little less ritual and a little more fun. PART ONE. Bram Stoker's Dracula from novel to film. Dracula: a wonder of the modern world -- The cinematic spectacle of vampirism: Nosferatu in the light of new technology -- From Hollywood gothic to hammer horror: the modern evolution of Dracula. PART TWO. The birth of the modern American vampire. The Seventies: the vamire decade -- George Romero's Martin: an American vampire -- Walking corpses and independent filmmaking techniques -- Special makeup effects and exploding vampires. PART THREE. Reconfiguring the urban vampire. New York and the vampire flaneuse -- Vampire road movies: from modernity to postmodernity -- Los Angeles: fangs, gangs, and vampireland. PART FOUR. Redefining boundaries. Vampire cyborgs -- Vampires in a borderless world.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780292794696 (e-book)
029279469X (e-book)
9780292716957
0292716958
9780292716964 (pbk.)
0292716966 (pbk.)
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