Bram Stoker's Dracula and the vampire genre

Autor*innen

• Hartmut Lutschewitz

Parameter

• Kunst & Kultur
• Theater

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In this intertextual approach to "Dracula," Dirk Lutschewitz analyzes the complex position of Stoker's novel vis-à-vis both its literary precursors and its film adaptations. Focusing on how the various novels, short stories, poems, and movies deal with the genre's archetypal conflict between good and evil, he traces the extraordinary evolution of the vampire in literature and film. In addition to the landmarks of the vampire genre, the often-neglected horror series "Varney the Vampyre" (1847) and the Dracula movies by F.W. Murnau (1922), Terence Fisher (1958), Werner Herzog (1979), and Francis Ford Coppola (1992) are examined. Apart from making a contribution to the enduring academic discussion centering on Stoker's "Dracula," Lutschewitz's study can be read as a guided tour of the most influential and salient vampire classics. It therefore addresses itself not only to Stoker scholars but to anyone interested in the literature and cinema of the undead. "Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Vampire Genre" is Lutschewitz's Ph.D. dissertation. It was submitted to the Neuphilologische Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg in 2013.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014