3. From Hollywood Gothic to Hammer Horror: The Modern Evolution of Dracula

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun 1
5. PART ONE. Bram Stoker’s Dracula from Novel to Film
6. 1. Dracula: A Wonder of the Modern World 15
7. 2. The Cinematic Spectacle of Vampirism: Nosferatu in the Light of New Technology 43
8. 3. From Hollywood Gothic to Hammer Horror: The Modern Evolution of Dracula 61
9. PART TWO. The Birth of the Modern American Vampire
10. 4. The Seventies: The Vampire Decade 75
11. 5. George Romero’s Martin: An American Vampire 89
12. 6. Walking Corpses and Independent Filmmaking Techniques 107
13. 7. Special Makeup Effects and Exploding Vampires 123
14. PART THREE. Reconfiguring the Urban Vampire
15. 8. New York and the Vampire Flâneuse 141
16. 9. Vampire Road Movies: From Modernity to Postmodernity 163
17. 10. Los Angeles: Fangs, Gangs, and Vampireland 177
18. PART FOUR. Redefining Boundaries
19. 11. Vampire Cyborgs 197
20. 12. Vampires in a Borderless World 215
21. Notes 221
22. Selected Bibliography 243
23. Filmography 255
24. Index 259