PT Journal
AU Malek, P
TI Adaptation as "Reading Against the Grain". Stoker's Dracula
SO Iluminace
PY 2010
BP 101
EP 129
VL 22
IS 1
WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201001-0006.php
DE Nosferatu the Vampire 1922; Nosferatu the Vampire 1979; Dracula 1992; film adaptations of literary works; vampires in film; Dracula in film
SN 0862397X
AB The author is involved in film adaptations of Stoker's novel Dracula. He first approaches the book as a modern English prose, then traces its different interpretations by three directors and the relationships between their rewritings. Murnau, Herzog, and Coppola have gone beneath the basic level of the text, with the first two leaning towards an allegorical adaptation and the third towards a symbolic one, according to the author. The filmmakers were not only interested in the focal points of the story, but also in the issues of displaced death and sexuality, commenting on the aesthetics of modernity, etc.
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