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"I Am Not Like Other People": Tippi Hedren, Vampires And Marnie, Victoria Amador Jan 2001

"I Am Not Like Other People": Tippi Hedren, Vampires And Marnie, Victoria Amador

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Blade: A Return To Revulsion, James Craig Holte Jan 2001

Blade: A Return To Revulsion, James Craig Holte

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Secrecy As Strategy In Dracula, Jean Marigny Jan 2000

Secrecy As Strategy In Dracula, Jean Marigny

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Desire And Loathing In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nancy F. Rosenberg Jan 2000

Desire And Loathing In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nancy F. Rosenberg

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Dracula And The Gothic Imagination Of War, Bryan Alexander Jan 2000

Dracula And The Gothic Imagination Of War, Bryan Alexander

Journal of Dracula Studies

When Jonathan Harker first describes Castle Dracula, his journals rely on the language of war. Unable to pin down the castle’s site on an Ordnance Map, Harker is able to see instead the liminal city of Bistritz in terms of a historic siege (11). As he approaches nearer, Harker relates a companion’s (mis)quotation from Burger’s “Lenore,” a line spoken by an undead soldier, all too recently at war (17). Castle Dracula itself appears textually as a mix of military and Gothic discourses, whose “frowning walls and dark window openings” (21) serve both to situate Harker in classically Gothic space, and …


Vampire Crime, Katherine Ramsland Jan 2000

Vampire Crime, Katherine Ramsland

Journal of Dracula Studies

While most of the vampire subculture these days is a benign form of role-playing, there have been cases of people who were inspired by the predatory image to kill. To their minds, the vampire mythos provides a framework that inspires and even licenses certain types of violent behaviors. Although this bloodthirsty impulse reaches back centuries and crosses cultures, I want to examine the mythology’s influence on three cases in recent American culture: Roderick Ferrell, James Riva, and Richard Trenton Chase. I will take one case at a time and then discuss how they attach to the vampire frame.


The Influence Of Dracula On The Lesbian Vampire Film, Sharon A. Russell Jan 1999

The Influence Of Dracula On The Lesbian Vampire Film, Sharon A. Russell

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Coffin Nails: Smokers And Non-Smokers In Dracula, Elizabeth Miller Jan 1999

Coffin Nails: Smokers And Non-Smokers In Dracula, Elizabeth Miller

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Separation Granted; Divorce Denied; Annulment Unlikely, Raymond Mcnally Jan 1999

Separation Granted; Divorce Denied; Annulment Unlikely, Raymond Mcnally

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Whose Dracula Is It Anyway? Deane, Balderston And The "World Famous Vampire Play", Anne-Marie Finn Jan 1999

Whose Dracula Is It Anyway? Deane, Balderston And The "World Famous Vampire Play", Anne-Marie Finn

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


From The Order Of The Dragon To Dracula, Constantin Rezachevici Jan 1999

From The Order Of The Dragon To Dracula, Constantin Rezachevici

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Overlooked Pearls: The Blue Oyster Cult And The Vampire In Modern Music, David F. Hallett, J. Robin Martin Jan 1999

Overlooked Pearls: The Blue Oyster Cult And The Vampire In Modern Music, David F. Hallett, J. Robin Martin

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.