9780393308051

Hollywood Gothic

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780393308051

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"The primal image of Count Dracula, the black-caped vampire, has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination, with a recognition factor rivaling, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Without prompting, most of us can recite Dracula's salient characteristics: sleeping by day in his coffin; rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shape-shift into a bat, a wolf, or mist; and a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or to a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to modern cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what this prince of darkness says about us all."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN-13

9780393308051

ISBN-10

0393308057

Weight

1.85 Pounds

Dimensions

8.25 x 0.75 x 10.00 In

List Price

$15.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

1 pages

Publisher

W W Norton & Co Inc

Published On

1991-10-01



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