Dracula in Visual Media

Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010

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by John Edgar Browning and Caroline Joan Picart

Type

Dictionaries

Subject

Genre > Horror

Keywords

horror, characters

Publishing date

2010

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 312 pages
7 x 10 inches (18 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-3365-0

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Book Presentation:
This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world’s most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker’s original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each.

The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.

About the authors:
John Edgar Browning is a visiting lecturer at Georgia Tech and has over twelve published and forthcoming books on Bram Stoker, vampires and horror.
Caroline Joan “Kay” Picart is a scholar and attorney at law practicing in federal and state appellate criminal law, and publishes peer reviewed journal articles and books principally on law, criminology, sociology, and film. Prior to law, in collaboration with Cecil Greek, a sociologist, she had earlier developed the framework of a Gothic Criminology, which is the interdisciplinary study of law and monstrosity in both real and “reel” modes.

Press Reviews:
Winner, Lord Ruthven Award in Nonfiction— Lord Ruthven Society
"Extremely useful"—Booklist
"The information here is amazing"—Van Helsing’s Journal
"Superb book…a magnificent piece of scholarship!”—Elizabeth Miller, editor of Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula and Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
"Dracula in Visual Media is a monumental achievement. This exhaustive compilation of Dracula-related works in film, video games, comics, and other media will be indispensable for all Dracula scholars and devoted fans of the Count."—Margaret L. Carter, editor of Dracula: The Vampire and the Critics, and author of The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography and Different Blood: The Vampire as Alien
"This in-depth, nicely illustrated catalogue of all known visual Draculinian works is an interesting read that will have you nostalgically digging out your Hammer box sets and Tomb of Dracula comics collection."—James Burrell, Rue Morgue magazine

See the publisher website: McFarland & Co