Awards

• Short-listed for Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award 2025

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9781399525756

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Rhodes' book is full of original information, presented affably. It entertains as well as informs. It moves through the 18th through 21st centuries, providing a history of vampire culture, and how it was presented through press, books, the stage and screen.--Doug Gibson ""Plan 9 Crunch"" Vampires in Silent Cinema is an invaluable resource for aficionados and scholars of early cinema. Rhodes' extensive research leaves no stone unturned and has shed light on many mysteries and misconceptions around the birth of the vampire genre. It is among the most illuminating and original books on vampires in recent memory. --Robert Eggers, Director of The Witch and Nosferatu At last, an account of the vampire in silent cinema that is fully researched! From Theda Bara's sexy ""vamp""; Musidora's criminal Irma Vep; a lost Hungarian film; through to Murnau's Nosferatu and the lead-up to Lugosi's ""talkie,"" Rhodes combines the enthusiasm of a fan with the care of a scholar. --Tom Gunning, University of Chicago

Author Information

Gary D. Rhodes is Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). He is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004).

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