Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010

by John Edgar Browning, Caroline Joan S. Picart, David J. Skal (Introduction)

Featuring a foreword by Dacre Stoker, sectional introductions by David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Mitch Frye, and Dodd Alley, an afterword by Ian Holt, and a bibliographical essay by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and J. Gordon Melton, this comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire documents over 700 domestic and international "Dracula" films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker's original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each.

Genres: Nonfiction

312 pages, Paperback

First published October 20, 2010

About the author

A recognized international authority on the horror genre, vampires, and Monster Theory, John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) has appeared as an expert guest on documentary TV and radio programs like National Geographic's Taboo USA (2013), Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What? (2010), AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018), Ripley's Believe It or Notcast (2019), BBC Radio, and History Channel's The UnXplained (2020) hosted by William Shatner. A university educator for the last 15 years, he is now Professor of Liberal Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta campus).

Browning has contracted or published seventeen academic and popular trade books and over 80 articles, chapters, and reviews on subjects that cluster around Cultural Studies, critical media literacy, Dracula, vampires, zombies, horror, monstrosity, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic. His research and scholarship have earned him international respect from his peers, as well as media coverage from over 150 news outlets in over 40 countries, including venues like the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, El Huffington Post (Spain), TIME, Variety, VICE (Broadly), Hack Circus, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, New York Daily News, The Guardian (US Edition), Fusion, ABC News (Australia), The Daily Telegraph (Australia), Smithsonian.com, The Indian Express, Medical Daily, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), Louisiana Cultural Vistas (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), VT. (Viral Thread), Live Science, Bloody Disgusting, and many others.

Reviews

[Arthur O'dell · Rating 4 out of 5]

A comprehensive bibliography with interesting, though brief, introductory articles. My only (slight) disappointment was hoping for more critical commentary on the entries. A worthwhile resource for a collector.