Vampires on the Silent Screen: Cinema’s First Age of Vampires 1897-1922
Author:   David Annwn Jones
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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Pages:   215
Publication Date:   03 October 2024
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Author:   David Annwn Jones
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031386459


ISBN 10:   3031386450
Pages:   215
Publication Date:   03 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1 From Time’s Beginnings.- 2 The Cinematic Vampire 1896–1922: Vampire Bats and Vamps and Thieves.- 3 The Vampire as Spirit of Fire: Leopold and Theodore Wharton’s The Mysteries of Myra (1916).- 4 Count Merlin and the Alchemy of Blood Lust: Alexander Korda’s Mágia/Magic (1917).- 5 The Blood-Demon and the Scientist: Erich Kober’s Lilith und Ly / Lilith and Ly (1919).- 6 Dreaming in the Madhouse Károly Lajthay’s Drakula halála / Dracula’s Death (1921).- 7 Counterfeits and Genuine.- 8 F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu.

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David Annwn Jones is author of Gothic Machine (2011), Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern (2014), Gothic Effigy (2018), Re-Envisaging the First Age of Cinematic Horror (2018) and ‘Green Trends in Euro-Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s’ in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (2020) ‘The Art of Ghostly Projections’ (2021) in The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins and ‘Cinematic Darkness’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic (2021).

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