Vampires Of Hollywood

Author : Adrienne Barbeau,Michael Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429991865

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Vampyres of Hollywood by Adrienne Barbeau,Michael Scott Pdf

Film, television and Broadway star Adrienne Barbeau and New York Times bestselling author Michael Scott have teamed up to deliver this sexy, scary, and deliciously clever novel full of Hollywood glamour, behind-the-scenes secrets, and the truly bloodthirsty reality of Tinseltown. So grab some popcorn and some holy water and lose yourself in the high-stakes, back-stabbing world of the Vampyres of Hollywood. Hollywood, California: Three gruesome deaths within two weeks and every one of them a major star - an Oscar winner, an ingénue, and an action hero. A serial killer is working through the Hollywood A-list and celebrities are running scared. Each crime scene is worthy of a classic horror movie, and all three victims share a connection to the powerful scream queen, Ovsanna Moore. The stunning and formidable Moore is the legendary head of a Hollywood studio, as well as the writer and star of seventeen blockbuster horror films (and a few that went straight to DVD). She's also a 500 year old vampyre... but this is Hollywood after all, and no one ever looks their age. Beverly Hills Police Detective Peter King knows a lot about the City of Angels, but he certainly doesn't know that most of the famous actors in town are actually an established network of vampires. Or that secretive and seductive Ovsanna Moore happens to be their CEO. Moore and King may be from opposite sides of the Hollywood Hills, but both have something to gain by stopping the killer who the tabloids have dubbed the Cinema Slayer. Ovsanna must protect her vampire legacy and her production schedule, while King just wants to keep his Beverly Hills beat as blood-free as possible. But when the horror queen and the cop with the movie star looks form an unholy alliance, sparks fly and so do the creatures of the night.

Author : Dale Hudson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474423090

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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 : Matt R. Jones
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145371264X

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Hollywood Vampires: Unholy War by Matt R. Jones Pdf

A rock 'n roll hellride of hilarity and humanity, Unholy War follows the cataclysmic clash between the high-spirited, hard-rocking vampires of Hollywood and a brutal, bloodthirsty cult of Old World zealots out to convert -- or kill -- any vampire who doesn't see things their way. Inspired by 80's rock 'n roll like L.A. Guns, over-the-top action films such as Desperado, and the profane comedy of classics like Clerks, Unholy War tosses the usual angsty brooding and trembling romance out the window and instead treats you to a skull-smashing story of defiance, friendship, and standing up for what you believe in. Told through the eyes of Steele -- a tough, streetwise old vampire who sings in a glam rock band -- Unholy War introduces you to immortals both powerful and playful, loyal and loving, tender and treacherous. These aren't the usual cape-clad cardboard cut-outs or dark-eyed forever-teens... The Hollywood Vampires are -- at their hearts -- human. People who've found a city they can call home, away from the madness and prejudice that plagued them throughout the centuries... a place where they can be happy and finally enjoy their long lives. And when the Crimson Order comes knocking with an army of revenants and werewolves, looking to tell our fanged champions what to believe and restart old battles, there'll be absolute and utter hell to pay. No quarter will be given -- this unholy war is for KEEPS. Unholy War isn't about what you lose when you become a vampire... it's about everything you GAIN, and why that's worth fighting for.

Author : Matt R. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759656371

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Hollywood Vampires by Matt R. Jones Pdf

Hollywood Vampires: Unholy War is an unorthodox take on the familiar genre of vampire fiction, mixing action, drama, and romance, along with a very healthy dose of humor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Club Lighthouse Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781927337547

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Vampires of Hollywood by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dale M. Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN : 1474434762

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Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods by Dale M. Hudson Pdf

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 : Keith Topping
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Angel (Television program)
ISBN : 0753508079

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Hollywood Vampire by Keith Topping Pdf

Everything you ever needed or wanted to know about the world of Angel is brought together in this indispensable volume including- Best episodes Hyperion hotel facts What's On in Pylea Guest Appearances Dream Sequences Favourite Quotes Love Lives and Betrayals Defining Moments and many more ...

Author : Keith Topping
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Angel (Television program : 1999-2004)
ISBN : 0753505312

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Hollywood Vampire by Keith Topping Pdf

This is the fan bible from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off series, Angel.

Author : Stacey Abbott
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292784499

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Celluloid Vampires by Stacey Abbott Pdf

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.

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781578597543

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The Vampire Almanac by J. Gordon Melton Pdf

Grab a stake, a fistful of garlic, a crucifix and holy water as you enter the dark, blood-curdling world of the original pain in the neck in this ultimate collection of vampire facts, fangs, and fiction! What accounts for the undying fascination people have for vampires? How did encounters with death create centuries-old myths and folklore in virtually every culture in the world? When did the early literary vampires—as pictured by Goethe, Coleridge, Shelly, Polidori, Byron, and Nodier as the personifications of man’s darker side—transform from villains into today’s cultural rebels? Showing how vampire-like creatures organically formed in virtually every part of the world, The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History by renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D., examines the historic, societal, and psychological role the vampire has played—and continues to play—in understanding death, man’s deepest desires, and human pathologies. It analyzes humanity’s lusts, fears, and longing for power and the forbidden! Today, the vampire serves as a powerful symbol for the darker parts of the human condition, touching on death, immortality, forbidden sexuality, sexual power and surrender, intimacy, alienation, rebellion, violence, and a fascination with the mysterious. The vampire is often portrayed as a symbolic leader advocating an outrageous alternative to the demands of conformity. Vampires can also be tools for scapegoating such as when women are called “vamps” and bosses are described as “bloodsuckers.” Meet all of the villains, anti-heroes, and heroes of myths, legends, books, films, and television series across cultures and today’s pop culture in The Vampire Almanac. It assembles and analyzes hundreds of vampiric characters, people, and creatures, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vlad the Impaler, Edward Cullen and The Twilight Saga, Bram Stoker, Lestat De Lioncourt and The Vampire Chronicles, Lon Chaney, True Blood, Bela Lugosi, Dracula, Dark Shadows, Lilith, Vampire Weekend, Batman, Nosferatu, and so many more. There is a lot to sink your teeth into with this deep exhumation of the undead. Quench your thirst for facts, histories, biographies, definitions, analysis, immortality, and more! This gruesomely thorough book of vampire facts also has a helpful bibliography, an extensive index, and numerous photos, adding to its usefulness.

Author : Tim Desmondes
Publisher : The Nazca Plains Corporation
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934625668

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Dracula Sucks Hollywood Dudes by Tim Desmondes Pdf

Tim Axelrod comes home from college to Hollywood for Spring Break. His good friend (and lover) Karl invites him to experience sex like few mortals ever get to enjoy ndash; Sex with a vampire. Yes, Hollywood is infested with vampires ready to show a college boy one heck of a time. Once you've been fanged and shagged by a Hollywood vampire, you will never return to unimaginative, commonplace sex again. But, oh, yes. There's a little price to pay for the pleasure. You become UNDEAD as a result. Come step into the world of vampire sex. There's nothing like sex with fangs in your jugular. It is all told in Dracula Sucks Hollywood Dudes.

Author : David J. Skal
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1579124755

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Vampires by David J. Skal Pdf

The most wide-ranging collection of vampire tales ever features two centuries of spine-tingling writing, from John Polidori to Robert Block, Alexis Tolstoy to Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Henry Kuttner. Every page of Vampires features a column of commentary by the editor, expanding upon the stories and exploring the evolution of the vampire mystique in folklore, literature, and popular culture. More than 200 beautifully rendered black-and-white images of vintage engravings, film posters, and popular artifacts make this big book the “living end” of vampire fact, fiction, and lore.

Author : Jennifer Bringle
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Essexxx Freely
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 2017 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468935615

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8 Books Box Set: The Pop Star & Her Bodyguard, The Vampire Murder Mystery by Essexxx Freely Pdf

This is an exhilarating box set containing 8 books. The books range from pop culture to contemporary crime and murder mystery novels (as well as the classic romance plays of Shakespeare).