New Vampire Cinema (Hardcover)

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining. Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer - films that seemed for a moment to take vampire cinema in completely opposite directions. New Vampire Cinema then examines what happened afterwards, across a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire,

General

Imprint:	Bfi Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	December 2012
Authors:	Ken Gelder
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-84457-441-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	1-84457-441-5
Barcode:	9781844574414

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