The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to True Blood (Limelight)

Alain Silver

$29.99

Publication Date: September 1st, 2011

Publisher:

Limelight

ISBN:

9780879103958

Pages:

488

Description

This newest edition will track the form's evolution from such 1970s reinventions as Count Yorga Vampire and Blacula, The Hunger and Vampire's Kiss in the Eighties, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the Blade series in the Nineties, through 30 Days of Night, I Am Legend, and the Underworld series in the first decade of the 21st century. All these films plus celebrated international examples such as Thirst and Let the Right One In and the hit television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, New Amsterdam, Angel, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood are covered in this long-awaited, completely revised, expanded, and redesigned fourth edition that follows the vampire figures, both male and female, through the millennium and beyond.

About the Author

Alain Silver (Los Angeles) wrote The Samurai Film, a dozen other books with James Ursini or Elizabeth Ward, including Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, and co-edited six readers on film noir, horror, and gangster films. James Ursini (Los Angeles) co-wrote The Noir Style, L.A. Noir, More Things Than Are Dreamt Of, and director studies of David Lean, Robert Aldrich, and Roger Corman with Alain Silver. His other books include Modern Amazons, Cinema of Obsession, Femme Fatale and monographs on Bogart, Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Mae West, and De Niro for the Taschen Icon series.