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» Sunday October 31, 2010 - 10:48 am
The Vampire Film From Nosferatu to Twilight Fourth Edition - Updated and Expanded By Alain Silver and James Ursini. Vampire movies are now the most popular type of horror film—those plodding zombies just can't keep up. Limelight Editions is proud to release a completely revised and updated edition of The Vampire Film, the most extensive and insightful book on the vampire genre, now doubled in length and completely redesigned with 800 color photos. Previous editions have entranced film students, seized the hearts of mortal fans, and given vampires something meaty to sink their teeth into as they pass the millennia (though they would never admit it).
The new edition explores the surge in vampire media since the millennium, including films like Underworld, Van Helsing, I Am Legend, and Let the Right One In and television series like Buffy, Moonlight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries. Many current portrayals explore tragedy as much as terror—as Tennyson's Tithonus put it, "Cruel immortality consumes." And with modern digital effects, today's filmmakers no longer need to rely on rubber bats and plastic fangs to depict the bloodthirsty undead. This book takes a look at all the visions and re-envisions of these creatures of the night, from the monsters of The Last Man on Earth to love-struck Edward Cullen of Twilight to a tortured and kick-ass Blade.
The book is structured thematically, incorporating vampire films of all eras into chapters on vampire lore, male vampires, female vampires, Dracula, and more. Although all vampire movies get a mention, the authors pay particular attention to little-known titles with unique or groundbreaking approaches to the genre. This in addition to a 700+ entry filmography makes this book the most complete of its kind. The Vampire Film has withstood the tests of time and its rivals and, like the great, immortal vampire lords, only grows stronger.
- October 2010
- $29.99
- ISBN: 978-0-87910-380-4
- Paperback
- 488 pages
- 800 color photos
- Limelight Editions, an imprint of Hal Leonard
                    
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