Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen, Paperback - David J. Skal

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A beautiful girl goes missing, and Wycliffe must untangle a mystery to solve a murder . . .

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Why “Dracul”? Did he earn this nickname because he was evil, “Dracul” being a folk name for the Devil, the Unclean One? Not at all. What follows is...

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The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use o...

DescriptionOne of the few studies that cover both Broadway and Hollywood musicals, this book explores a majority of the most famous musicals over t...

A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford's brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three entirely new Hockney...

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

Reducere. Why “Dracul”? Did he earn this nickname because he was evil, “Dracul” being a folk name for the Devil, the Unclean One? Not at all. What follows is...

Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular bl...

Most horror film fans are familiar with the classics, from the early Universal archetypes to the Hammer landmarks - all of which have been celebrat...

The first graphical 'sequel' to Dracula ever to be endorsed by a member of the Stoker family Six months after Dracula dies, A ghostly vision inform...

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A biography of Dr John Disney (1779-1857), the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major coll...

From Vlad the Impaler to Dracula the Vampire - Neagu Djuvara

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Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hithert...

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Follow the tangled web of relationships and emotions of the Dark and Penhallow families in this endearing classic, from the author of Anne of Green...

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Examines the evolution of Queen Victoria's on-screen image. From the satirical cartoons and silent films of the 19th century to the television show...

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Examines a set of perennial narrative motifs centred on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American ...

A collection of 80 imaginative games and activities designed to engage and entertain without a screen.

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Reducere. The classic monsters have returned... again During the gothic horror revival of the late 1950s through the 1970s, vampires, witches, devil worshipe...

This is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children's fiction to analyse a range of popular and literary wor...

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Reducere. For the first time in English comes a remarkable literary discovery. In 1928, Turkish author Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu pirated Bram Stoker's Dracula, comp...

Publisher: Steerforth PressAuthor(s): Robert KerbeckNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Paperback / sof...