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Autore: | Jones David Annwn |
Titolo: | Vampires on the Silent Screen : Cinema's First Age of Vampires 1897-1922 / / David Annwn Jones |
Pubblicazione: | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
©2023 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
Disciplina: | 791.43675 |
Soggetto topico: | Vampire films - History and criticism |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Preface -- What Kind of Vampire? -- Probing 'loss' -- Regarding Origins -- Approaches to Blood-suckers -- Thanks and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Chapter 1: From Time's Beginnings -- Magic Lanterns and Vampires -- Mesmerism, Spiritualism and the Psychic Vampire -- The Occult, Vampires and Occult Detectives -- Psychic Detectives -- References -- Chapter 2: The Cinematic Vampire 1896-1922: Vampire Bats and Vamps and Thieves -- Vampire Dances and the Emergence of Vamps -- A Vamp There Was -- The Litigant, the Censor and the Vampire -- References -- Chapter 3: The Vampire as Spirit of Fire: Leopold and Theodore Wharton's The Mysteries of Myra (1916) -- Myra's Predicament -- The Vampire Arrives -- Questioning the Vampire -- Fire Elemental as Vampire and the Blood Osmosis -- Like a Sponge -- Technology of Capture and the Release -- The Fire Elemental: Nemesis of the Great War -- From the World of War to Invisible World -- References -- Chapter 4: Count Merlin and the Alchemy of Blood Lust: Alexander Korda's Mágia/Magic (1917) -- Divergences from Vampire Themes -- Alchemical Romance -- References -- Chapter 5: The Blood-Demon and the Scientist: Erich Kober's Lilith und Ly / Lilith and Ly (1919) -- Lilith- What Is in a Name? -- Hybridity -- Closer to Home -- References -- Chapter 6: Dreaming in the Madhouse Károly Lajthay's Drakula halála / Dracula's Death (1921) -- References -- Chapter 7: Counterfeits and Genuine -- Genuine and a Genuine Vampire? -- Genuine: What Is in a Name? -- In Melo's House -- To See and Be Seen: Die Neue Frau as Vamp or Vampire -- References -- Chapter 8: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu -- The Vampire: Man and Demon -- Belial's Spawn -- Nosferatu: The Demonic Dimension -- The Occult, War and Eco-Theory -- Reasons for Re-evaluation -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Vampires on the Silent Screen |
ISBN: | 3-031-38643-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910746069003321 |
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