The Vampire Film

by Silver, Alain; Ursini, James

• ISBN13: 9780879102661
• ISBN10: 0879102667
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Limelight Editions

Summary

The Third and most recent edition of The Vampire Film featuring a new chapter, "The Vampire at the Millennium," was released in October 1996 to coincide with the centennial of Stoker's novel Dracula. More vampire films have been produced since the First Edition of The Vampire Film appeared in 1974 than in the entire history of motion pictures prior to that year. The first completely revised and updated edition was published in 1993. The Third Edition, at over 340 pages in length and with well over 200 illustrations, insures that what began as the first book-length study of the subject in 1974 remains the most comprehensive available. The authors, Alain Silver and James Ursini, are continuing their research for future revisions and invite comments from their readers.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	11	(2)
Acknowledgments	13	(4)
CHAPTER ONE: Sources of the Vampire Lore in Film	17	(36)
I. The Vampire in Legend	17	(9)
II. Historical and Natural "Vampires"	26	(5)
III. The Vampire in Literature and the Arts	31	(22)
CHAPTER TWO: The Male Vampire	53	(44)
I. The Vampire Figure	53	(4)
II. Dracula	57	(32)
III. The Sympathetic Male Vampire	89	(8)
CHAPTER THREE: The Female Vampire	97	(26)
I. Elisabeth Bathory	97	(6)
II. Carmilla Karnstein	103	(9)
III. Other Daughters of Darkness	112	(6)
IV. Vampyr	118	(5)
CHAPTER FOUR: Emerging Traditions	123	(20)
1I. Hammer and the Victorian Psychology	123	(10)
II. Mario Bava and the Baroque Image	133	(10)
CHAPTER FIVE: Dracula A.D. 1992	143	(34)
I. The New Age Dracula	143	(16)
II. The Sensitive Male Vampire	159	(8)
III. I Was a Teenage Vampire	167	(10)
CHAPTER SIX: Countess Dracula A.D. 1992	177	(26)
I. Carmilla Karnstein; The Nightmare Continues	177	(4)
II. Elisabeth Bathory: Still Thirsty After All These Years	181	(3)
III. Still Other Daughters of Darkness: The Scorned	184	(11)
IV. Still Other Daughters of Darkness: A Touch of Sympathy	195	(8)
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Multimedia Vampire	203	(8)
I. Stranger than Fiction	203	(2)
II. I Sing the Body Vampiric	205	(6)
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Vampire at the Millennium	211	(38)
I. Dracula's Nightmare	211	(14)
II. Nosferatu's Daughter	225	(17)
III. Vampires Next Door	242	(7)
Filmography	249	(50)
Additional Filmography	299	(14)
Appendix: Vampire Redux, Other Studies of the Vampire Film	313	(10)
Bibliography	323	(10)
Index	333