After Dracula: The 1930s Horror Film

by Alison Peirse

After Dracula tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea Islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that survey the outskirts of contemporary Paris and travel back in time to ancient Egypt. Alison Peirse argues that Dracula (1931) has been canonised to the detriment of other innovative and original 1930s horror films in Europe and America. By casting out the deified vampire, she reveals a cycle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848855311
• ISBN13: 9781848855311
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"