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VAMPIRE CINEMA
Εκδότης Reel Art Press , ISBN 9781909526884
This co!ee table visual feast celebrates a century of classic vampire cinema -
mainstream and niche - through the many colourful ways in which the key films
have been marketed and consumed, to enter the bloodstream of contemporary
world culture.
FW Murnau's haunting film Nosferatu had its premiere in Berlin in March
1922. It was a bootleg version on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, and Stoker's widow
Florence tried hard to sue the production company for breach of copyright - but
had to settle in the end for a court order to destroy all prints and negatives. The film
kept resurrecting, though, and is now considered the first, and one of the greatest,
of all vampire movies, the founder of a dynasty of prints of darkness and probably
the most productive act of piracy in the history of popular culture. It set the tone
for a new kind of cinematic horror - a century of classic vampire cinema.
The bloodline has spread from Nosferatu to Hollywood's Dracula and progeny
(1931-1948); from Hammer's Dracula/Horror of Dracula and sequels (1958-1974)
to versions of Sheridan Le Fanu's story Carmilla and other lesbian vampires
(1970-2020); from the best-selling novels Salem's Lot and Interview with the Vampire
to vampires who have shed their capes, hereditary titles and period trappings to
become assorted small-town oddballs, addicts, delinquents, psychopaths, rednecks,
fashionistas, gay icons, comedians and soap stars in a jugular vein, tormented
new romantics, teenage fantasies of sex from the neck up...and even comic-book
heroes (1975-2022). The vampires of nineteenth century literature have remained
immortal - even in the age of the democratisation of their blood relatives: still
undead after all these years and still scary.
Περίληψη
This co!ee table visual feast celebrates a century of classic vampire cinema -
mainstream and niche - through the many colourful ways in which the key films
have been marketed and consumed, to enter the bloodstream of contemporary
world culture.
FW Murnau's haunting film Nosferatu had its premiere in Berlin in March
1922. It was a bootleg version on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, and Stoker's widow
Florence tried hard to sue the production company for breach of copyright - but
had to settle in the end for a court order to destroy all prints and negatives. The film
kept resurrecting, though, and is now considered the first, and one of the greatest,
of all vampire movies, the founder of a dynasty of prints of darkness and probably
the most productive act of piracy in the history of popular culture. It set the tone
for a new kind of cinematic horror - a century of classic vampire cinema.
The bloodline has spread from Nosferatu to Hollywood's Dracula and progeny
(1931-1948); from Hammer's Dracula/Horror of Dracula and sequels (1958-1974)
to versions of Sheridan Le Fanu's story Carmilla and other lesbian vampires
(1970-2020); from the best-selling novels Salem's Lot and Interview with the Vampire
to vampires who have shed their capes, hereditary titles and period trappings to
become assorted small-town oddballs, addicts, delinquents, psychopaths, rednecks,
fashionistas, gay icons, comedians and soap stars in a jugular vein, tormented
new romantics, teenage fantasies of sex from the neck up...and even comic-book
heroes (1975-2022). The vampires of nineteenth century literature have remained
immortal - even in the age of the democratisation of their blood relatives: still
undead after all these years and still scary.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Frayiling, Christopher
- Eκδότης Reel Art Press
- ISBN 9781909526884
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100079273
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2022
- Σελίδες 224
- Διαστάσεις 30χ24
- Βάρος 350 gr