Description: Hollywood Gothic : The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage and Screen, Paperback by Skal, David J., ISBN 0571211585, ISBN-13 9780571211586, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.
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Book Title: Hollywood Gothic : the Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2004
Topic: Film / General, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Weight: 17.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: David J. Skal
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
