The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula - Third Edition
by Alain Silver
from Limelight Editions
The Third and most recent edition of The Vampire Film featuring a new chapter, "The Vampire at the Millennium," was released in October 1996 to coincide with the centennial of Stoker's novel Dracula. More vampire films have been produced since the First Edition of The Vampire Film appeared in 1974 than in the entire history of motion pictures prior to that year. The first completely revised and updated edition was published in 1993. The Third Edition, at over 340 pages in length and with well over 200 illustrations, insures that what began as the first book-length study of the subject in 1974 remains the most comprehensive available. The authors, Alain Silver and James Ursini, are continuing their research for future revisions and invite comments from their readers.
Horror Film Reader
by Alain Silver
from Limelight Editions
These essays offer a broad overview of the horror film genre, from the silent screen to Scream 3, demonstrating how it remains defiantly, frighteningly alive.
More Things Than Are Dreamt Of: Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror
by Alain Silver
from Limelight Editions
For centuries, perhaps from the beginning of time, people young and old have been drawn to the genre of supernatural horror, first on the printed page and then on the screen. From fairy tales to Freddy Krueger, the appeal of the genre rests on the all too human search for something above nature, something unkown and unnameable. This search has produced works as memorable as they are terrifying, and we feel their power once again in More Things Than Are Dreamt Of. The sweep of the book encompasses almost two centuries as it reconsiders in detail such classics of literature as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James' The Turn of the Screw right up to contemporary novels of horror as Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist andd Stephen King's The Dead Zone. But what sets this book apart is that the authors go on to study the most significant feature films derived from these and many other works of fiction, from the silent era until today.
More Things Than Are Dreamt of: Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror-From Mary Shelley to Stephen King-In Literature and Film
The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula
When it was published in 1975, The Vampire Film was the first book in English devoted to the topic of vampire movies. Now newly updated, with a number of chapters covering the intervening two decades, The Vampire Film stands as the best researched and most illuminating book on its subject. In their thematically organized chapters, authors Alain Silver and James Ursini discuss how the movies have created a developing tradition of vampire lore. There is even a chapter on "The Multimedia Vampire." Full of helpful commentaries and loaded with stills from the movies discussed, this book is both good scholarship and an entertaining read.
Horror Film Reader
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