Vampirism in Gothic film parody: From Tod Browning’s ‘Dracula’ to Mel Brooks’ ‘Dracula: Dead and Loving It’

Vampirism in Gothic film parody: From Tod Browning’s ‘Dracula’ to Mel Brooks’ ‘Dracula: Dead and Loving It’
Author: Eugen Gusser
Publisher: diplom.de
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3959935773

This thesis analyses motifs of vampirism in gothic film parodies on the basis of Mel Brooks “Dracula: Dead and Loving it”, which parodies its original “Dracula” by Tod Browning. The contrasting juxtaposition of the two films serves to provide the parodic constructions of vampirism. By using the six methods of parody by Dan Harris – reiteration, inversion, misdirection, literalizitation, extraneous inclusion and exaggeration – the parodic constructions will be examined. This works aims to find answers to the question what is left of the old-fashioned motifs of vampirism.

Gothic Cinema

Gothic Cinema
Author: Katharina Rein
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2023-06-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3658407212

Gothic Cinema closes a gap in German-language film discourse: for the first time, the volume sheds light on a hitherto little-discussed film context. It considers Gothic Cinema as a form of unofficial historiography that allows a look not only at the history of film and its technique, but also at moral concepts, gender relations, collective fears or aesthetic currents. A delimitation and definition of the term and the central elements of the Gothic are followed by a comprehensive historical overview from 1896 to the present day. Three in-depth analyses of individual post-2015 gothic films and television series round out the review. On the one hand, the examples examined are representative in terms of typical elements, motifs or topoi, and on the other hand, they exhibit peculiarities and breaks that prove fruitful for a cultural and media studies investigation.

Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts

Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004308067

This volume brings together fourteen articles that reappraise the productivity of Stoker’s Dracula and the strong influence it still exerts on today’s generations. The volume explores various multimodal and multimedia adaptations of the book, by critically examining its literary, cinematic, theatrical, televised and artistic versions. In so doing, it reassesses the origins, evolution, imagery, mythology, theory and criticism of Gothic fiction and of the Gothic (sub)culture. The volume is innovative in that it congregates various angles to the Gothic phenomenon, providing an overview of the interdisciplinary relationships between different cultural, artistic and creative reworkings of the Gothic in general and of Stoker’s legacy in particular.

B-Movie Gothic

B-Movie Gothic
Author: Justin Edwards
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474423450

Leading philosophers reconsider the philosophical destiny of education.

The Routledge Companion to Gothic

The Routledge Companion to Gothic
Author: Catherine Spooner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2007-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134151039

In a wide-ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this book is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date guides on the diverse and murky world of the gothic in literature, film and culture.

Hollywood Gothic

Hollywood Gothic
Author: David J. Skal
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2004-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1429998458

A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.

Tod Browning's Dracula

Tod Browning's Dracula
Author: Gary Don Rhodes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Dracula (Motion picture : 1931)
ISBN: 9780956683458

Few movies in film history have resonated with audiences as deeply and for as many years as Universal's original 1931 version of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as the vampire count. Filmmaker and film historian Gary D. Rhodes brings years of research to fruition, providing conclusive answers to everything you ever wanted to know this iconic film. Overflowing with newly unearthed information and fresh analysis, and fully illustrated, Tod Browning's Dracula is one of the most in-depth books ever published on a single film. Tod Browning's Dracula by Gary D. Rhodes is the first in a collectible series of books on the world's most iconic, classic horror films.

Dracula

Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 97
Release: 1982-04-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0394848284

String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.

Dracula

Dracula
Author: Tania Zamorsky
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781402736902

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.