Vampyres Genesis And Resurrection From Count Dracula To Vampirella

Download Vampyres Genesis And Resurrection From Count Dracula To Vampirella full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Vampyres Genesis And Resurrection From Count Dracula To Vampirella ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Vampyres

Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773483
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Vampyres by : Christopher Frayling

Download or read book Vampyres written by Christopher Frayling and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Frayling has spent 45 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture the vampire. Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. Frayling recounts the most significant moments in gothic history, while extracts from a huge range of sources including Bram Stokers detailed research notes for Dracula, penny dreadfuls and Angela Carters The Bloody Chamber, new to this edition are contextualized and analysed. This revised and expanded edition brings Vampyres up to date with 21st-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary and a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four colour-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from 18th-century prints to 21st-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film.

Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella

Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773491
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella by : Christopher Frayling

Download or read book Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella written by Christopher Frayling and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded, fully illustrated, and up-to-date edition of the classic cultural history of vampires Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. It incorporates extracts from a huge range of sources—from Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula to penny dreadfuls, to Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (new to this edition) which is analyzed by the author in a broader cultural context. This revised and expanded edition of the 1978 classic brings Vampyres up to date with twenty-first-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary, and a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four color-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from eighteenth-century prints to twenty-first-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film.

The Vampire Almanac

Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578597544
Total Pages : 1324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Vampire Almanac by : J. Gordon Melton

Download or read book The Vampire Almanac written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab a stake, a fistful of garlic, a crucifix and holy water as you enter the dark, blood-curdling world of the original pain in the neck in this ultimate collection of vampire facts, fangs, and fiction! What accounts for the undying fascination people have for vampires? How did encounters with death create centuries-old myths and folklore in virtually every culture in the world? When did the early literary vampires—as pictured by Goethe, Coleridge, Shelly, Polidori, Byron, and Nodier as the personifications of man’s darker side—transform from villains into today’s cultural rebels? Showing how vampire-like creatures organically formed in virtually every part of the world, The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History by renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D., examines the historic, societal, and psychological role the vampire has played—and continues to play—in understanding death, man’s deepest desires, and human pathologies. It analyzes humanity’s lusts, fears, and longing for power and the forbidden! Today, the vampire serves as a powerful symbol for the darker parts of the human condition, touching on death, immortality, forbidden sexuality, sexual power and surrender, intimacy, alienation, rebellion, violence, and a fascination with the mysterious. The vampire is often portrayed as a symbolic leader advocating an outrageous alternative to the demands of conformity. Vampires can also be tools for scapegoating such as when women are called “vamps” and bosses are described as “bloodsuckers.” Meet all of the villains, anti-heroes, and heroes of myths, legends, books, films, and television series across cultures and today’s pop culture in The Vampire Almanac. It assembles and analyzes hundreds of vampiric characters, people, and creatures, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vlad the Impaler, Edward Cullen and The Twilight Saga, Bram Stoker, Lestat De Lioncourt and The Vampire Chronicles, Lon Chaney, True Blood, Bela Lugosi, Dracula, Dark Shadows, Lilith, Vampire Weekend, Batman, Nosferatu, and so many more. There is a lot to sink your teeth into with this deep exhumation of the undead. Quench your thirst for facts, histories, biographies, definitions, analysis, immortality, and more! This gruesomely thorough book of vampire facts also has a helpful bibliography, an extensive index, and numerous photos, adding to its usefulness.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031362535
Total Pages : 1746 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire by : Simon Bacon

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire written by Simon Bacon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700

Author : Alina Payne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004515461
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700 by : Alina Payne

Download or read book The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700 written by Alina Payne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov) and their hinterland. Addressing the mediating role of the Balkans between East and West all the way to Poland and Lithuania, as well as this region’s contribution to the larger Mediterranean artistic and cultural melting pot, this innovative volume explores ideas, artworks and stories that moved through these territories linking the cultures of Central Asia with those of western Europe.

Nosferatu in the 21st Century

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800855176
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Nosferatu in the 21st Century by : Simon Bacon

Download or read book Nosferatu in the 21st Century written by Simon Bacon and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Nosferatu’ in the 21st Century is a celebration and a critical study of F. W. Murnau’s seminal vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens on the 100th anniversary of its release in 1922.The movie remains a dark mirror to the troubled world we live in seeing it as striking and important in the 2020s as it was a century ago. The unmistakable image of Count Orlok has traveled from his dilapidated castle in old world Transylvania into the futuristic depths of outerspace in Star Trek and beyondas the all-consuming shadow of the vampire spreads ever wider throughout contemporary popular culture. This innovative collection of essays, with a foreword by renowned Dracula expert Gary D. Rhodes, brings together experts in the field alongside creative artists to explore the ongoing impact of Murnau’s groundbreaking movie as it has been adapted, reinterpreted, and recreated across multiple mediums from theatre, performance and film, to gaming, music and even drag. As such, ‘Nosferatu’ in the 21st Century is not only a timely and essential book about Murnau’s film but also illuminates the times that produced it and the world it continues to influence.

Young Adult Gothic Fiction

Author : Michelle J. Smith
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683751X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Young Adult Gothic Fiction by : Michelle J. Smith

Download or read book Young Adult Gothic Fiction written by Michelle J. Smith and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first to focus exclusively on twenty-first-century young adult Gothic fiction. The essays demonstrate how the contemporary resurgence of the Gothic signals anxieties about (and hopes for) young people in the twenty-first century. Changing conceptions of young adults as liminal figures, operating between the modes of child and adult, can be mobilised when combined with Gothic spaces and concepts in texts for young people. In young adult Gothic literature, the crossing of boundaries typical of the Gothic is often motivated by a heterosexual romance plot, in which the human or monstrous female protagonist desires a boy who is not her ‘type’. Additionally, as the Gothic works to define what it means to be human – particularly in relation to gender, race, and identity – the volume also examines how contemporary shifts and flashpoints in identity politics are being negotiated under the metaphoric cloak of monstrosity.

The Slavic Myths

Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500778647
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Slavic Myths by : Noah Charney

Download or read book The Slavic Myths written by Noah Charney and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavic cultures are far-ranging, comprising of East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria), yet they are connected by tales of adventure and magic with deep roots in a common lore. In this first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapak expertly weave together a retelling of the ancient stories with nuanced analysis that illuminates their place at the heart of Slavic tradition. Though less familiar to us than the legends of ancient Egypt, Greece and Scandinavia, in the world of Slavic mythology we find much that we can recognize: petulant deities, demons and faeries; witches, the sinister vestica, whose magic may harm or heal; a supreme god who can summon storms and hurl thunderbolts. Gods gather under the World Tree, reminiscent of Norse mythologys Yggdrasill; or, after the coming of Christianity, congregate among the clouds. The vampire usually the only Serbo-Croatian word in any foreign-language dictionary and the werewolf emerge from the shallow graves of Slavic belief. In their careful analysis and sensitive reconstructions of the origin stories, Charney and Slapsak unearth the Slavic beliefs before their distortion first by Christian chroniclers and then by 19th-century scholars seeking origin stories for their new-born nation states. They reveal links not only to the neighbouring pantheons of Greece, Rome, Egypt and Scandinavia but also the belief systems of indigenous peoples of Australia, the Americas, Africa and Asia. In so doing, they draw out the universalities that cut across cultures in the stories we tell ourselves.

Vampyres

Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571163113
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (631 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Vampyres by : Christopher Frayling

Download or read book Vampyres written by Christopher Frayling and published by . This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gothic Film

Author : Hand Richard J. Hand
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474448062
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gothic Film by : Hand Richard J. Hand

Download or read book Gothic Film written by Hand Richard J. Hand and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the presentOffers essays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contextsExtends the field of Gothic film by spanning diverse historical periods, international contexts and (sub)genresStructured into 3 sections on History, Traditions and AdaptationsProvides major new appraisals of key works alongside neglected topicsThis anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad ways that filmmakers mobilise Gothic conceits across multiple film genres and in conjunction with several significant film styles. In the process, the book contributes exciting new readings of canonical works of Gothic cinema as well as important new critical examinations of emerging horror subgenres.

The Writer's Journey

Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Journeys of Note
ISBN 13 : 071126872X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Writer's Journey by : Travis Elborough

Download or read book The Writer's Journey written by Travis Elborough and published by Journeys of Note. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writer's Journey invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous authors on the travels that inspired their greatest works.

Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030890546
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories by : Gina Wisker

Download or read book Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories written by Gina Wisker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women’s ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides and domestic tyrannies, providing unceasing reminders of violence and violations. Women, like ghosts, have historically lurked in the background, incarcerated in domestic spaces and roles by familial and hereditary norms. They have been disenfranchised legally and politically, sold on dreams of romance and domesticity. Like unquiet spirits that cannot be silenced, women’s ghost stories speak the unspeakable, revealing these contradictions and oppressions. Wisker’s book demonstrates that in terms of women’s ghost stories, there is much to point the spectral finger at and much to speak out about.

The New Urban Gothic

Author : Holly-Gale Millette
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030437779
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The New Urban Gothic by : Holly-Gale Millette

Download or read book The New Urban Gothic written by Holly-Gale Millette and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space. Divided into three sections—Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic—The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the peripheral that are found in so many new fictions across various media. Focusing on non-canonical Gothic global cities, this distinctive collection discusses urban centres in England’s Black Country, Moscow, Detroit, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Dehli, Srinigar, Shanghai and Barcelona as well as cities of the imaginary, the digital and the animated. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the intersections of time, place, space and media in contemporary Gothic Studies. The New Urban Gothic casts reflections and shadows on the age of the Anthropocene.

The Universal Vampire

Author : Barbara Brodman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611475805
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Universal Vampire by : Barbara Brodman

Download or read book The Universal Vampire written by Barbara Brodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an "undead" creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire's beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.

A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

Author : Sherri L. Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442277483
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English by : Sherri L. Brown

Download or read book A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English written by Sherri L. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.

The Vampyre

Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780575023901
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (239 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Vampyre by : Christopher Frayling

Download or read book The Vampyre written by Christopher Frayling and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vampires in Literature

Author : Kris Hirschmann
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 160152210X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Vampires in Literature by : Kris Hirschmann

Download or read book Vampires in Literature written by Kris Hirschmann and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires have haunted humankind's nightmares for thousands of years but it was only about 200 years ago that they first appeared in works of literature. The undead have been a staple of fiction ever since and are likely to continue their hold on the reading public's imagination for years to come.