The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula, Third Edition

342 Pages·2004·30.056 MB·English

by  Alain Silver, James Ursini

Vampire
Also by James Ursini
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The Life and Time of Preston Sturges, An American Dreamer (1976)
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The Noir Style (1998)
Roger Gorman: Metaphysics on a Shoestring (1998)
What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich? (1995)
More Things Than Are Dreamt Of (1994)
The Film Director's Team (1992)
David Lean and His Films (1992)
Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles (1987)
The Samurai Film (1983)
Robert Aldrich: A Guide to References and Resources (1979)
Film Noir Reader (Editor) (1996)
Film Budgding (Editor) (1996)
Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (Editor) (1992)
Atom Stiver and James Zlrsini
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The Vampire Film. Third Edition, November 1997
Copyright © 1975 by A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc.
Copyright © 1993, 1997 by James Ursini and Alain Silver
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Proscenium Publishers,
Inc., New York.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silver, Alain, 1947-
The vampire film : from Nosferatu to Interview with a vampire / by
Alain Silver and James Ursini. — 3rd Limelight ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87910-266-7
1. Vampire films—History and criticism. I. Ursini, James.
II. Title.
PN1995.9. V3U77 1997
791.43'675~dc21 9977--3344991199
CIP
This edition is affectionately dedicated
to the memories of our fathers,
Vincenzo Ursini
and
Elmer Silver.
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2017 with funding from
Kahle/Austin Foundation
https://archive.org/details/vampirefilmfromnOOsilv
Contents
Preface to the Third Edition 11
Acknowledgments 13
CHAPTER ONE: Sources of the Vampire Lore in Film
I. The Vampire in Legend 17
II. Historical and Natural “Vampires” 26
III. The Vampire in Literature and the Arts 31
CHAPTER TWO: The Male Vampire
I. The Vampire Figure 53
IL Dracula 57
III. The Sympathetic Male Vampire 89
CHAPTER THREE: The Female Vampire
I. Elisabeth Bathory 97
II. Carmilla Kamstein 103
III. Other Daughters of Darkness 112
IV. Vampyr 118
CHAPTER FOUR: Emerging Traditions
II. Hammer and the Victorian Psychology 123
II. Mario Bava and the Baroque Image 133
CHAPTER FIVE: Dracula A.D. 1992
I. The New Age Dracula 143
II. The Sensitive Male Vampire 159
III. I Was a Teenage Vampire 167
CHAPTER SIX: Countess Dracula A.D. 1992
I. Carmilla Kamstein; The Nightmare Continues 177
II. Elisabeth Bathory: Still Thirsty After All These Years 181
III. Still Other Daughters of Darkness: The Scorned 184
IV. Still Other Daughters of Darkness: A Touch of Sympathy 195
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Multimedia Vampire
I. Stranger than Fiction 203
II. I Sing the Body Vampiric 205
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Vampire at the Millennium
I. Dracula’s Nightmare 211
II. Nosferatu’s Daughter 225
III. Vampires Next Door 242
Filmography 249
Additional Filmography 299
Appendix: Vampire Redux, Other Studies of the Vampire Film 313
Bibliography 323
Index 333
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When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
Tb be a moment’s ornament.
William Wordsworth
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