Research Catalog

Title

Living and the undead : slaying vampires, exterminating zombies / Gregory A. Waller.

Author

Waller, Gregory A. (Gregory Albert), 1950-

Publication

Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press ; Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], 2010.

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Details

Description

xii, 376 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Gregory Waller shows why the vampires continues to fascinate us in film and fiction. He focuses upon a series of interrelated novels, stories, plays, films, and made-for-television movies.

Subject

• Dracula
• Vampire films > History and criticism
• Zombie films > History and criticism
• Horror films > History and criticism
• Vampires in literature
• Zombies in literature
• Horror tales > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Stories of the living and the undead -- The mortal community and the king-vampire. Into the twentieth century -- Dracula retold. Dracula : the vampire play (1927), Dracula (1931), and Dracula (1979) ; Horror of Dracula, Hammer's Dracula films, El Conde Dracula ; Dracula (1973) and Count Dracula (1977) -- The sacrifice of the pure-hearted seer. Nosferatu, a symphony of horror and Nosferatu the vampyre -- Legions of the undead. The invasion of America ; Land of the living dead -- Conclusion. Resolution, violence, survival -- Appendix. Précis of Dracula : the vampire play.

ISBN

• 9780252077722 (pbk.)
• 0252077725 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 783930866
• SCSB-12854311

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library