Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

W.W. Norton & Company Inc, New York, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: Quarto 4to. 243 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and shows only minor shelf-wear.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Film, Radio & Television; Horror. ISBN: 0393029042. ISBN/EAN: 9780393029048. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4308. . 9780393029048 This book weighs over one kilogram, and may involve extra shipping charges if posted to some countries..