The Living and the Undead
by Gregory A. Waller
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In this book, Gregory A. Waller shows why the vampire continues to fascinate us in film and fiction. Waller focuses upon a series of interrelated novels, stories, plays, films, and made-for-television movies: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897); several film adaptations of Stoker's novel; F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922); 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 show more argues, speak to our understanding and fear of evil and chaos, of desire and egotism, of slavish dependence show lessTags
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1. Stories of the Living and the Undead.
Examines stories of the confrontation between the living and the undead, stories in which the resolution of conflict often depicts the survival of the fittest and, in fact, defined what fitness consists of. The focus is on film, literature, TV and theatre with contributions from genre theorists.
2. Into the 20th Century.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Polidori’s The Vampire, Le Fanu’s Carmilla, and Lair of the White Worm. A brief survey of vampire stories published in between 1890 and 1925. Freud’s totem and taboo features a lot in the book.
3. Dracula: the Vampire play 1927.
DRACULA 1931 and 1979.
4. Horror of Dracula
Hammer’s DRACULA film, EL CONDE DRACULA
5. Dracula 1973 and Count Dracula show more 1977.
TV films by Dan Curtis and Philip Saville
6. Nosferatu a Symphony of horror
Murnau 1922. NOSFERATU THE VAMPIRE Herzog 1979.
7. The invasion of America.
COUNT YORGA, BLACULA, SALEM'S LOT, I Am Legend, THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, THE THING.
8. Land of the Living Dead.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, Gustav le Bonn’s The Crowd 1895 – mob behaviour.
9. Resolution, Violence, Survival.
I desire (J.L. MOXEY) The Awakening - John Russo. Closure or open-ended. Violence and the mass media. show less
Examines stories of the confrontation between the living and the undead, stories in which the resolution of conflict often depicts the survival of the fittest and, in fact, defined what fitness consists of. The focus is on film, literature, TV and theatre with contributions from genre theorists.
2. Into the 20th Century.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Polidori’s The Vampire, Le Fanu’s Carmilla, and Lair of the White Worm. A brief survey of vampire stories published in between 1890 and 1925. Freud’s totem and taboo features a lot in the book.
3. Dracula: the Vampire play 1927.
DRACULA 1931 and 1979.
4. Horror of Dracula
Hammer’s DRACULA film, EL CONDE DRACULA
5. Dracula 1973 and Count Dracula show more 1977.
TV films by Dan Curtis and Philip Saville
6. Nosferatu a Symphony of horror
Murnau 1922. NOSFERATU THE VAMPIRE Herzog 1979.
7. The invasion of America.
COUNT YORGA, BLACULA, SALEM'S LOT, I Am Legend, THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, THE THING.
8. Land of the Living Dead.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, Gustav le Bonn’s The Crowd 1895 – mob behaviour.
9. Resolution, Violence, Survival.
I desire (J.L. MOXEY) The Awakening - John Russo. Closure or open-ended. Violence and the mass media. show less
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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 and other works.
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- 791.436164 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Special aspects of films; film adaptations, film genres {class specific films in 791.437} Films displaying specific qualities Tragedy and horror Horror
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