Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997

In 1897, Archibald Constable & corporation released a unique via the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has long gone directly to turn into might be the main influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that fab novel, Carol Margaret Davison has introduced jointly this selection of essays via the various world's top students. The essays research Stoker's unique novel and rejoice its legacy in pop culture. the ongoing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and movies offers facts that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking. "

"Dracula is a Gothic mandala, an enormous layout during which a number of reflections of the weather of the style are configured in stylish units of symmetries. it's also a kind of lens, bringing concentration and compression to varied Gothic motifs, together with not just vampirism yet insanity, the evening, spoiled innocence, illness in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the break, and the tomb. accumulating up and unifying all that got here ahead of it, and casting its nice shadow over all that got here and maintains to come back after, its impression on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and movie is exclusive and impossible to resist. "

-from the Preface by way of Patrick McGrath

Heat (BFI Modern Classics)

From Amazon: "For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of this movie are combined and complicated. Its unique compositions and minimalist sort are entangled with a specific form of extravagant bombast. The complexities upload to the curiosity of this formidable movie. " Nick James is the editor of Sight and Sound journal.

The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema: The Films of Peter Weir

Attention-grabbing, attractive and provocative . .. This finely researched examine is a must-read for movie students, movie fans and an individual attracted to the religious dimensions of pop culture and well known leisure. Barbara Creed, Professor of monitor experiences, Head of the college of tradition and verbal exchange, college of MelbourneA hugely unique paintings of scholarship .

The British Official Film in South-East Asia: Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong

This booklet explores the ways that the British authentic movie used to be utilized in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the Nineteen Seventies. Aitken uncovers how the British authentic movie, and British respectable details organizations, tailored to the epochal contexts of the chilly struggle and finish of empire. as well as an in depth advent, which touches on a few serious matters with regards to the post-war British respectable movie, the booklet offers an account of the way the culture of film-making linked to the British documentary movie move unfold into the zone throughout the post-war interval, and the way that culture used to be contested by means of a ‘Colonial place of work’ culture of film-making.