David Rudkin

Vampyr (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Described by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed by the revered Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Despite the fact that there is no definitive print and many English versions are marred by poor quality subtitles, the film remains a vivid, extraordinary artwork in which the inner human state is made hauntingly visible.

In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, David Rudkin reveals how this film systematically binds the spectator - spatially and morally - into its mysterious world of the undead.

This second edition features a new foreword, discussion of the Martin Koerber and Cineteca di Bologna restoration of the film in 2008, and original cover artwork by Midge Naylor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839021060
• Artikelnr.: 60125770

Autorenporträt

David Rudkin's first play, Afore Night Comes, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in their 1962 experimental season, informed the Company's revolutionizing approach to the performance of Shakespeare. David writes for television, radio, and theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword.
1. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889
1968).
2. Locating Vampyr in Dreyer's Cinema and it its Sources.
3. The 'Problem' of Vampyr.
 4. Vampyr: Towards a Reading.
5. The Journey to Our Grave.
Notes.
Credits.