Vampires on the Silent Screen: Cinema's First Age of Vampires 1897-1922

by David Annwn Jones

This book is the first study of the vampires in silent cinema, presenting a detailed academic yet accessible discussion of the films themselves and their sources. For the very first time, The Fire Elemental from the Wharton brothers' The Mysteries of Myra (1916) is identified as cinema's original vampire, his appearance initiating a rich and variegated period of film production that is currently missing from studies of horror cinema. Exciting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031386426
• ISBN13: 9783031386428
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"