Vampires In Film And Television

Author : Tim Kane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786426768

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The Changing Vampire of Film and Television by Tim Kane Pdf

Vampires have been a fixture of film since Bela Lugosi brought Bram Stoker's Dracula to life on the big screen in 1931. Over the decades the genre has been far from static, as vampire narratives changed and evolved with the appetites of their viewing public. First depicted as formally dressed villains, vampires would later be portrayed as supernatural beings with some human characteristics, and still later as sympathetic figures. Focusing on 19 representative films and television productions, this critical study tracks the evolutionary changes of the screen vampire. It explores the factors that cause a genre to change and examines the alternating cycles of audience expectation. The author identifies three distinct modes of depiction: the Malignant Cycle (1931-1948), comprised primarily of the Universal films; the Erotic Cycle (1957-1985), which encompasses Hammer films and popular television shows such as Dark Shadows; and the Sympathetic Cycle (1987-present) including recent offerings such as The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Each film is evaluated in seven key areas including the act of the vampire biting the victim; process of the victim's infection; physical appearance and demeanor of the vampire and the vampire expert; and the eventual destruction of the vampire. Appendices include a complete filmography of the films examined. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Jennifer Bringle
Publisher : Rosen Central
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Vampire films
ISBN : 144882236X

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Vampires in Film and Television by Jennifer Bringle Pdf

Author : Dale Hudson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474423106

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Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods by Dale Hudson Pdf

The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims' blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises. In Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa. As the vampire's popularity has swelled, vampire film and television has engaged with changing discourses around race and identity not always addressed in realist modes. Here, teen vampires comfort misunderstood youth, chador-wearing skateboarder vampires promote transnational feminism, African American and Mexican American vampires recover their repressed histories. Looking at contemporary hits like True Blood, Twilight, Underworld and The Strain, classics such as Universal's Dracula and Dracula, and miscegenation melodramas like The Cheat and The Sheik, the book reconfigures Hollywood historiography and tradition as fundamentally transnational, offering fresh interpretations of vampire media as trans-genre sites for political contestation.

Author : Adam Woog
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Vampire films
ISBN : 9781601522115

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Vampires in the Movies by Adam Woog Pdf

Vampire movies have a long and rich history, from what was probably the first one (in 1896), through the classics of the early-twentieth century (Nosferatu, Bela Lugosi's version of Dracula), and on to the present-day mania for Twilight and other modern takes. In between there have been hundreds of versions and variations, including American Sign Language vampires, comedies, space vampires, and much more. This book explores the lore of vampire films, why they remain perennially popular with audiences, and themes that run through the history of these cinematic bloodsuckers.

Author : John L. Flynn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029271239

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Cinematic Vampires by John L. Flynn Pdf

This reference examines 372 vampire films from 1896 to 1992. Each entry gives the year of release, production credits, actors, and a synopsis of the film and its importance to the genre. Also included are alternate titles and the original titles of non-English films. With 93 b&w photographs. Annotat

Author : Lea Cassandra Weller BA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304135896

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The Evolution Of The Vampire In Film and Television From Beast To Beauty by Lea Cassandra Weller BA Pdf

An investigation of the modification and transformation of the vampire; contending that the vampire has evolved from a figure of fear to one of domestication and compassion. Researching into vampires and taking into account the historical evolution and contemporary significance this book will explore myth, repressed memories, desires and primordial images giving rise to the archetypal hero that is the modern vampire. With reference to Sigmund Freud's models and using Carl Jung's framework, including the collective i.e. the Shadow, Id, Ego, Superego will be explored in order to investigate this change from 'Beast to Beauty'. Studying cultural archetypes in relation to belief and historical evidence and following Freudian and Jungian approaches to psychoanalysis provides a pragmatic base for understanding the human psyche. The vampire show the evolution from a figure of fear to a figure of compassion and domestication.

Author : Leon Hunt,Sharon Lockyer,Milly Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857735430

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Screening the Undead by Leon Hunt,Sharon Lockyer,Milly Williamson Pdf

The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely outsider. The zombie can shamble or, nowadays, sprint with alarming velocity, and even dance. It frequently lends itself to metaphor and can stand in for fascism or ecological disaster, but is perhaps most frequently a harbinger and instrument of the apocalypse. Leading writers on Horror and cult media consider the sexy vampire and the grotesque zombie, as well as hybrid figures who do not fit neatly into either category. These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies. Screening the Undead sheds new light on these two icons of terror - and desire - whose popular longevity has taken them 'Beyond Life'.

Author : John Edgar Browning,Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786462018

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Dracula in Visual Media by John Edgar Browning,Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart Pdf

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world’s most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker’s original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each. The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.

Author : Lea Weller BA PGCert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3741842354

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The Evolution Of The Vampire In Film and Television: From Beast To Beauty by Lea Weller BA PGCert Pdf

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307575852

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Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Pdf

The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476620831

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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television by Anonim Pdf

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.

Author : Jennifer Bringle
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448812264

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Vampires in Film and Television by Jennifer Bringle Pdf

Traces the history of vampires in movies and television.

Author : Lea Cassandra Weller Ba (Hons)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1291465510

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The Evolution of the Vampire in Film and Television from Beast to Beauty by Lea Cassandra Weller Ba (Hons) Pdf

An investigation of the modification and transformation of the vampire; contending that the vampire has evolved from a figure of fear to one of domestication and compassion. Researching into vampires and taking into account the historical evolution and contemporary significance this book will explore myth, repressed memories, desires and primordial images giving rise to the archetypal hero that is the modern vampire. With reference to Sigmund Freud's models and using Carl Jung's framework, including the collective i.e. the Shadow, Id, Ego, Superego will be explored in order to investigate this change from 'Beast to Beauty'. Studying cultural archetypes in relation to belief and historical evidence and following Freudian and Jungian approaches to psychoanalysis provides a pragmatic base for understanding the human psyche. The vampire show the evolution from a figure of fear to a figure of compassion and domestication.

Author : Violet Fenn
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526776631

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A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture by Violet Fenn Pdf

An exploration of the continuing appeal of vampires in cultural and social history. Our enduring love of vampires—the bad boys (and girls) of paranormal fantasy—has persisted for centuries. Despite being bloodthirsty, heartless killers, vampire stories commonly carry erotic overtones that are missing from other paranormal or horror stories. Even when monstrous teeth are sinking into pale, helpless throats—especially then—vampires are sexy. But why? In A History Of The Vampire In Popular Culture, author Violet Fenn takes the reader through the history of vampires in “fact” and fiction, their origins in mythology and literature, and their enduring appeal on TV and film. We’ll delve into the sexuality--and sexism--of vampire lore, as well as how modern audiences still hunger for a pair of sharp fangs in the middle of the night.

Author : Brad Middleton
Publisher : By Light Unseen Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781935303480

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Un-Dead TV by Brad Middleton Pdf

Vampires are ubiquitous in our popular culture--from movies to television, in fiction and art, and even within the hallowed halls of academia. But in the not-so-distant past, these undead creatures held more fear than fascination; they lived in the shadows and were the stuff of nightmares. In 1897, Bram Stoker introduced Dracula to the Western world--and our concept of vampires was changed forever. For over sixty years, the undead have bled the television airwaves, appearing in every type of programming imaginable. Un-Dead TV catalogues over one thousand unique vampire appearances—and is the first book of its kind to explore this phenomenon to the extent that it truly deserves.