Writing Vampyr

Writing Vampyr
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2008
Genre: Motion picture plays
ISBN:

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"Carl Theodor Dreyer loosely based his film Vampyr on Irish Huguenot writer Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural tales, In a Glass Darkly, and especially the story 'Carmilla'"--Introduction

Vampyr

Vampyr
Author: David Rudkin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1839021071

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Described by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed by the revered Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Despite the fact that there is no definitive print and many English versions are marred by poor quality subtitles, the film remains a vivid, extraordinary artwork in which the inner human state is made hauntingly visible. In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, David Rudkin reveals how this film systematically binds the spectator – spatially and morally – into its mysterious world of the undead. This second edition features a new foreword, discussion of the Martin Koerber and Cineteca di Bologna restoration of the film in 2008, and original cover artwork by Midge Naylor.

Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860

Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860
Author: Susanne Kord
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521519772

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An analysis of how female criminals were perceived both in the legal sphere and in general culture.

Vampyr

Vampyr
Author: VampyrdOj Notebook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2019-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781689980135

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Color Paperback. Size: 6 inches x 9 inches. 82 sheets (164 pages for writing). Vampyr Book. 156734931089

The Vampyre - A Tale

The Vampyre - A Tale
Author: John William Polidori
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473349583

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"The Vampyre" is a 1819 novel by John William Polidori. Considered to be the progenitor of vampire fiction, this chilling tale is not to be missed by lovers of the supernatural, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. John William Polidori (1795 - 1821) was an English writer and physician famous for his connection to the Romantic movement. He is commonly considered to be the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Other notable works by this author include: "The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori" (1816), "On the Punishment of Death" (1816), and "Ximenes, The Wreath and Other Poems" (1819). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Eastern Approaches to Western Film

Eastern Approaches to Western Film
Author: Stephen Teo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350113301

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Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Sam Peckinpah, and Orson Welles. The book contributes an “Eastern Approach” into the critical studies of Western films by reappraising selected films of these masters, matching and comparing their visions, themes, and ideas with the philosophical and paradigmatic principles of the East. It traces Eastern inscriptions and signs embedded within these films as well as their social lifestyle values and other concepts that are also inherently Eastern. As such, the book represents an effort to reformulate established discourses on Western cinema that are overwhelmingly Eurocentric. Although it seeks to inject an alternative perspective, the ultimate aim is to reach a balance of East and West. By focusing on Eastern aesthetic and philosophical influences in Western films, the book suggests that there is a much more thorough integration of East and West than previously thought or imagined.

The Vampire

The Vampire
Author: Nick Groom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300240813

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An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.

The Legendeer: Vampyr Legion

The Legendeer: Vampyr Legion
Author: Alan Gibbons
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144400395X

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A gripping, virtual reality thriller - the second title in The Legendeer trilogy. What if there are places where our nightmares live and wait for us? Phoenix has found one and it's alive. Armies of bloodsucking vampyrs and terrifying werewolves, the creatures of our darkest dreams, are poised to invade our world. After his battle with the evil Gamesmaster in SHADOW OF THE MINOTAUR, Phoenix knows this is for real. As he prepares to enter the second deadly computer game in The Legendeer series, he knows he must win or never come back. The Legendeer is more than just a game. Play it if you dare.

The Bride of the Isles (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

The Bride of the Isles (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Author: James Robinson Planche
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473355559

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Many of the gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Vampire Book

The Vampire Book
Author: J Gordon Melton
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Total Pages: 944
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1578593506

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The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.