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With a legacy stretching back into legend and folklore, the vampire in all its guises haunts the film and fiction of the twentieth century and remains the most enduring of all the monstrous threats that roam the landscapes of horror. In The Living and the Undead, Gregory A. Waller shows why this creature continues to fascinate us and why every generation reshapes the story of the violent confrontation between the living and the undead to fit new times.

Examining a broad range of novels, stories, plays, films, and made-for-television movies, Waller focuses upon a series of interrelated texts: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897); several film adaptations of Stoker's novel; F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922); Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954); Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (1975); Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1979). All of these works, Waller argues, speak to our understanding and fear of evil and chaos, of desire and egotism, of slavish dependence and masterful control. This paperback edition of The Living and the Undead features a new preface in which Waller positions his analysis in relation to the explosion of vampire and zombie films, fiction, and criticism in the past twenty-five years.



Table of Contents:
PREFACE   vi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS   xiii
INTRODUCTION
1. Stories of the Living and the Undead   3
PART ONE: The Moral Community and the King-Vampire
2. Into the Twentieth Century   29
PART TWO: Dracula Retold
3. Dracula: The Vampire Play (1927), Dracula (1931), and Dracula (1979)   77
4. Horror of Dracula, Hammer's Dracula Films, El Conde Dracula   113
5. Dracula (1973) and Count Dracula (1977)   146
PART THREE: The Sacrifice of the Pure-Hearted Seer
6. Nosferatu, A symphony of Horror and Nosferatu the Vampyre   177
PART FOUR: Legions of the Undead
7. The Invasion of America   233
8. Land of the Living Dead   272
CONCLUSION
9. Resolution, Violence, Survival   331
APPENDIX: Precis of Dracula: The Vampire Play   361
INDEX   363

About the Author :
Gregory A. Waller is professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930.

Review :
"Fascinating studies of nineteenth- and especially twentieth-century horror narratives. . . . A book which frequently displays great subtlety and insight."--Library Journal
"Highly recommended as a source book for those interested in the horror genre. In addition, Waller's book provides a critical abundance of empirical data for any scholar concerned with genre studies, history, adaptation, narrativity, and intertextuality."--Wide Angle
"A fascinating account of the changing trends in vampire fiction. . . . People truly interested in horror literature and films will find Waller's book invaluable."--West Coast Review of Books


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252090332
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies
  • ISBN-10: 0252090330
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 408

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