Living & The Undead Slaying Vampires Exterminating Zombies
WALLER G
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
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In this book, Gregory A. Waller shows why the vampire continues to fascinate us in film and fiction. Waller focuses upon a series of interrelated novels, stories, plays, films, and made-for-television movies: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897); several film adaptations of Stoker's novel; F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922); Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1979). All of these works, Waller argues, speak to our understanding and fear of evil and chaos, of desire and egotism, of slavish dependence and masterful control. This paperback edition of The Living and the Undead features a new preface in ...
Publication date: 2010-10
Number of pages: 377
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subjects:
Category, Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Film, TV & Radio, Films, Cinema, Education / Language / ESOL, Literature & Literary Studies, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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