Vampires on the Silent Screen

Zusatztext

This book is the first study of the vampires in silent cinema, presenting a detailed academic yet accessible discussion of the films themselves and their sources. For the very first time, The Fire Elemental from the Wharton brothers¿ <i>The Mysteries of Myra</i> (1916) is identified as cinema¿s original vampire, his appearance initiating a rich and variegated period of film production that is currently missing from studies of horror cinema. Exciting and ground-breaking, <i>Vampires on the Silent Screen </i>also discusses <i>Drakula Hal</i><i>á</i><i>la / Dracula¿s death</i> (1920), the first ever filmic female vampire in Erich Kober¿s <i>Lilith and Ly</i> (1919), and the Dracula lookalike, Count Merlin in Alexander Korda¿s<i> Magic</i> (1917) as well as many other productions. A socio-cultural framework with critical highlighting of eco-horror theory is used throughout to draw these unique discoveries together. This project is a must read for any horror enthusiasts out there.

Autorenportrait

<b>David Annwn Jones</b> is author of <i>Gothic Machine</i> (2011), <i>Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern</i> (2014), <i>Gothic Effigy</i> (2018), <i>Re-Envisaging the First Age of Cinematic Horror</i> (2018) and `Green Trends in Euro-Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s¿ in <i>The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic</i> (2020) `The Art of Ghostly Projections¿ (2021) in <i>The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins </i>and `Cinematic Darkness¿, in <i>The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic</i> (2021).

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