OTHER MEDIA


A. Film and Television

[For a list of vampire films see Appendix B]

Armstrong, Richard B. The Movie List Book: A Reference Guide to Film Themes, Settings, and Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.

Includes sections on both Dracula and vampires in film, with brief histories of the genre.

Carman, John. "Vampire Film Has Toothy Grin." San Francisco Chronicle. Aug. 23, 1989, E1.

Favourable review of USA Cable film Nightlife, starring Ben Cross and Maryam D'Abo.

Carter, Bill. "NBC Puts New Blood in Old Vampire Series." New York Times. Jan. 9, 1991, C11, 16.

Interview with Dan Curtis, creator of the original Dark Shadows, about his involvement in the revival series.


Coppola, Francis Ford. Bram Stoker's Dracula: the Film and the Legend. A Newmarket pictorial moviebook. New York: Newmarket Press, 1992.

 

Coppola, Francis Ford. Coppola and Eiko on Dracula. San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1992.

 

Douglas, Drake. Horrors! (The Awful Truth about the Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Phantoms, Mummies, and Ghouls of Literature - and How They Went to Hollywood). Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1989.

 

Eyles, Allen, ed. The House of Horror: the Complete History of Hammer Films. 2nd ed. London: Lorrimer, 1981.

Flynn, John L. Cinematic Vampires: the Living Dead on Film and Television, from The Devil's Castle (1896) to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1992.

 

Frank, Alan G. Monsters & Vampires. The Movie treasury. London: Octopus Books, 1976.

Frankel, Martha. "The Reflecting Skin [review]: Philip Ridley Tells a Vampire's Tale." American Film , 16 (July 1991): 53.

Favourable review of Philp Ridley's film The Reflecting Skin about aboy who thinks the widow next door is a vampire.


Gifford, Thomas. Hollywood Gothic. New York: Putnam, 1979.

 

Halliwell, Leslie. The Dead That Walk. Halliwell's moving pictures, 1. London: Grafton, 1986.

 

Haworth-Maden, Clare. Dracula: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Man, the Myth, and the Movies. New York: Crescent Books, 1992.


Hogan, David. Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1986.

James, Caryn. "Norferatu, the Father of All Horror Movies." New York Times. Apr. 2, 1993, C1, 19.

Article on the revival, with newly translated intertitles, of F.W. Murnau's silent classic, Nosferatu.


Jones, Stephen. The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide. Titan Books, 1992.

Kehr, Dave. "Why We're Suckers for Dracula." Chicago Tribune. Nov. 8, 1992, 134, 5, 21.

A history of vampires in the movies and discussion of the vampire myth.


Kemp, George P. "Dracula: Eroticism in the Vampire Genre" in Varieties of filmic expression: proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Film Conference of Kent State University, April 11 and 12, 1989, ed. Douglas Radcliff- Umstead_. pp. 128-134. Kent, Ohio: Romance Languages Dept., Kent State University, 1989.

 

Mayne, Judith. "Dracula in Twilight: Murnau's Nosferatu" in German Film & Literature: Adaptations and Transformations, ed. Eric Rentschler. pp. 25-39. New York: Methuen, 1986.

 

Murphy, Michael J. The Celluloid Vampires: History of Filmography 1897-1979. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1979.

Nance, Scott. Bloodsuckers: Vampires at the Movies. Las Vegas: Pioneer Books, 1992.

 

Newman, Kim. Nightmare Movies: a Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films. New York: Harmony Books, 1989.

A guide to current trends in horror movies including a chapter on vampire films.


Pattison, Barrie. The Seal of Dracula. London: Lorrimer, 1975.

Pirie, David. The Vampire Cinema. New York: Crescent Books, 1977.

 

Russell, Sharon. "The Transformed Woman: Female Clothing in the Vampire Film" in Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Donald Palumbo. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 31. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Essay on the change in appearance of the female victim in vampire films after becoming one of the undead.


Scott, Kathryn Leigh, ed. The Dark Shadows Companion: 25th Anniversary Collection. Los Angeles: Pomegranate Press, 1990.

Companion guide to the original television series starring Jonathan Frid.


Skal, David J. Hollywood Gothic: the Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen. New York: Norton, 1991.

 

Stanley, John. "Festival of Bloodsuckers." San Francisco Chronicle. Nov. 8, 1992, DB21, 44.

Review of films shown at the Berkeley UC Theatre "Creatures of Blood" series scheduled to coincide with the release of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's Tale of The Body Thief.

Turan, Kenneth. "The Missing Dracula." Los Angeles Times. Oct. 31, 1992, F1, 8.

Article on the filming in 1931 and rediscovery in 1992 of Universal Studio's Spanish-language Dracula.


Waller, Gregory A., ed. American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

 

Weldon, Michael. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983.

Good for synopses of hard-to-find cult and horror films.

 

B. Sound Recordings

[Note: I did not have time to complete this section, but have left the heading because it was planned and would be necessary for a study of the vampire in American popular culture.]

 

C. Comics

[For a list of titles and issues, see Appendix C]

Barker, Martin. A Haunt of Fears: the Strange History of the British Comics Campaign. London: Pluto Press Limited, 1984.

Comics the 9th Art, produced by EPISA (Euskal Pictures International, S. A.). West Long Branch, N.J.: White Star, 1990. Videocassette.

Mougin, Lou. [untitled article] Comics Collector, Summer 1985: 27-34.

Second part of a two part series on Marvel's monster comics of the 1970s covers vampires.

Nurmi, Maila. "The One -- the Only Vampira." Fangoria , 30 (Oct. 1983): 26-29.

Wooley, John. "Comic Screams." Dracula, the Complete Vampire. New York: Starlog, 1992.

Article on Dracula in the comics as villain, victim, and superhero.