{"product_id":"hollywood-gothic-david-j-skal-9780571211586","title":"Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fully updated edition of David J. Skal's \u003ci\u003eHollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The ultimate book on \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eincludes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David J. Skal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0571211585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571211586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.66w x 1.10d","brand":"David J. Skal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045165789439,"sku":"9780571211586","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8d4eca1-3673-4bd1-ab36-18906782c3af.jpg?v=1684977125","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hollywood-gothic-david-j-skal-9780571211586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}