Dracula as Absolute Other - The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen

Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age.
This book is a study of Dracula's role of absolute Other as it appears on screen, and an investigation of popular culture's continued fascination with vampires.
Drawing on vampire films spanning from the early 20th century to 2017, the author examines how different generations construct Otherness and how this is reflected in vampire media.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One.¿Undead Memories and Troubling Histories

Two.¿The Land Beyond the Forest

Three.¿The Trouble with Money

Four.¿Violent Distractions

Five.¿Distracting Technologies

Filmography

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

Summary

Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other - an outsider representative of the fears and anxieties of the age. This book is a study of Dracula's role of absolute Other as it appears on screen, and an investigation of popular culture's continued fascination with vampires.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Bacon
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781476675381
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7538-1
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 290 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Film: styles & genres, Vampires, Film: styles and genres