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Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts
This volume provides a critical reappraisal of Stoker's Dracula by examining various adaptations of the book, as well as different literary, cinematic, theatrical, cultural, artistic and creative reworkings of the Gothic.
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Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”
KEYWORDS: Orson Welles. Dracula, twentieth century, modernism, radio, adaptation, sound studies The Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of Dracula updated the novel's protomodernist fears of technology, subsuming and enthralling its subjects through the new medium of radio. Retaining the novel's moments of travel, Orson Welles would bleed diegetic layers of the epistolary form together and rework the narrative's relationships to reflect the asymmetric dynamics of broadcaster and listener. I argue that Welles evokes debates around radio to highlight the medium's potential to both empower and subjugate.
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Dracul
A prequel to Dracula, based on original author notes and co-written by a family descendant, reveals the iconic vampire's origin story, the early years of Bram Stoker, and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connected them.
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Post/modern Dracula : from Victorian themes to postmodern praxis
Post/modern Dracula explores the postmodern in Bram Stokers Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppolas postmodern film to demonstrate how the century that separates the two artists binds them more than it divides them. What are the postmodern elements of Stokers novel? Where are the Victorian traits in Coppolas film? Is there a postmodern gloss on those Victorian traits? And can there be a Victorian directive behind postmodernism in general? The nine essays compiled in t.
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Dracula and the Gothic in literature, pop culture and the arts
This volume brings together fourteen articles that reappraise the productivity of Stoker's Dracula and the strong influence it still exerts on today's generations. The volume explores various multimodal and multimedia adaptations of the book, by critically examining its literary, cinematic, theatrical, televised and artistic versions. In so doing, it reassesses the origins, evolution, imagery, mythology, theory and criticism of Gothic fiction and of the Gothic (sub)culture. The volume is innovative in that it congregates various angles to the Gothic phenomenon, providing an overview of the interdisciplinary relationships between different cultural, artistic and creative reworkings of the Gothic in general and of Stoker's legacy in particular.
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Celluloid Vampires
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 literature, such as Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today’s vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she’s even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.
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Something in the blood : the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula
\"A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed as a boy, and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with \"bad blood\" that informs every page of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his lifelong acquaintance and romantic rival, Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stoker's repressed shadow side--a doppelgänger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic, and his slavish adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving are examined in splendidly gothic detail.\"-- Provided by publisher
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\Vampiric Reading\
This essay investigates the literal acts of reading in Bram Stoker's Dracula. All the characters in Dracula—including Dracula himself—are obsessive readers. I coin the concept of \"vampiric reading\" as a particular aesthetic model and pattern of reading acts performed by the novel's characters. \"Vampiric reading\" indicates one's love of reading texts, a \"love\" that then elicits others to indulge in more reading—much like the actual vampirism in the novel, in which one's blood/desire is transfused with another's. The novel also guarantees its afterlife in a future of undead reading with the model of vampiric reading that we can emulate.
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