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Hollywood Gothic

The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

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By: David J. Skal
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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 commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.

©2004 David J. Skal (P)2022 Oasis Audio Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV Literary History & Criticism Popular Culture Social Sciences Fantasy Vampires

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I own the softcover edition of this book but it's very nice to own the updated audio edition read by the author. If you're interested in the detailed history of Dracula as a figure of literature, theater and film, this is a must own.

Excellent and Informative History of Dracula's Pop Culture Immortality

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