LEADER 04395nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910782007003321 005 20230721032509.0 010 $a0-292-79469-X 024 7 $a10.7560/716957 035 $a(CKB)1000000000533863 035 $a(OCoLC)605919621 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245687 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000119257 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145635 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119257 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10058196 035 $a(PQKB)10526558 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443217 035 $a(OCoLC)608448972 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2279 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245687 035 $a(DE-B1597)587089 035 $a(OCoLC)1280945142 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794696 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000533863 100 $a20070208d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCelluloid vampires$b[electronic resource] $elife after death in the modern world /$fStacey Abbott 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71695-8 320 $aIncludes filmography: p. [255]-258. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun -- $tPART ONE. Bram Stoker?s Dracula from Novel to Film -- $t1. Dracula: A Wonder of the Modern World -- $t2. The Cinematic Spectacle of Vampirism: Nosferatu in the Light of New Technology -- $t3. From Hollywood Gothic to Hammer Horror: The Modern Evolution of Dracula -- $tPART TWO. The Birth of the Modern American Vampire -- $t4. The Seventies: The Vampire Decade -- $t5. George Romero?s Martin: An American Vampire -- $t6. Walking Corpses and Independent Filmmaking Techniques -- $t7. Special Makeup Effects and Exploding Vampires -- $tPART THREE. Reconfiguring the Urban Vampire -- $t8. New York and the Vampire Flâneuse -- $t9. Vampire Road Movies: From Modernity to Postmodernity -- $t10. Los Angeles: Fangs, Gangs, and Vampireland -- $tPART FOUR. Redefining Boundaries -- $t11. Vampire Cyborgs -- $t12. Vampires in a Borderless World -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tFilmography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aVampire films$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aVampire films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43/675 700 $aAbbott$b Stacey$01472201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782007003321 996 $aCelluloid vampires$93684910 997 $aUNINA