Dracula's Migration to America
Novel (1897)-> Stage (May 1897-CopyRight Reading), (1924-Premier in Derby), (1927-London Run), (1927-NYC Run) -> Screen (1931-Universal Studios)
Side Note: After the A-Bomb, Japan had a rise in popularity w/horror movies.
-Cold War - increased fear=> more scary possibility of war 50s, 60s, and 70s
-Fewer vampire films were made (humorous) 50s in the US
-However in England (50s), the Horror of Dracula was made (1st technicolor vampire movie)
---->the 1st British actor to play a Vampire of the (Hamner?)
---->Christopher Lee was the 2nd to wear fangs while the first actor to wear fangs was in Nosferatu
Main notes:
Stoker's Input for the novel
-Stoker was a good accountant
-his first book was nonfiction "Duties of the clerk"
-1890- wrote an Irish adventure novel "Snakes Pass"
-wrote children's story (w/plague, infanticide and death)
-1887- Stoker created a story called the Dualitists or the Death Doom of the Double Born
---->duality was important in this story
---->the character had this bond that each person is dual (conscious and unconscious minds (body and soul)
-the story of novel that 2 malicious boys play a game of hack, where they dismember dolls and then cats and then these two neighborhood twins by beating them against each other. The parents shoot @ the boys but kill the babies and the boys claim that they were innocent and get away with no punishment while the parents are tried.
-1890- Dracula (the manuscript was typed in 1890s and is now in Philadelphia)
-Stoker was inspired by Lefanu's Carmilla (about a female vampire in Austria)
-the first locale was a place called Styria then Translyvania
-he had 3 working titles, the Undead, Count Dracula, and the Dead Undead
-the novel was a product of his subconscious
-Stoker wrote 50 letters a day b/c of his job
-this novel (Dracula) was the key to the darker side of the Victorian era
- thoughts and feelings were repressed b.c it couldn't be expressed
-also thought to be a xynophobic (fear of foreigners)
-occult- communication w/the spirit world
-thought to be connected w/Marxism
-Stoker works in an intuitive manner
-Published in May or June 1897
-it was a staged reading of the novel (not really a performance)
-to preserve the copyright of any play about the novel
-the novel was modern at that time
-Nosferatu was played in a Berlin Zoo
-later music was composed by Hans Berdemon
-Stoker's novel doesn't say that Dracula is supernatural but Nosferatu clearly indicates Dracula is supernatural
-widow won copyrights from Prana films
-In 1927- Hamilton Dean produced and acted Dracula in London w/copyright permission
-Harvey Lindweight produced it on Broadway but many people didn't like it
-it ran in NY for 33 weeks
-In 1932, Universal studios bought rights of Dracula and a pirate copy of Nosferatu
-Louis Bromfield (writer) Dracula
-Feb. 29, 1930
-Friday, 12th 1931 was previewed
-Notes on the Novel- the novel is epistolary (written in a series of letters)
*Thanks Sameera Gadiyaram*
Novel (1897)-> Stage (May 1897-CopyRight Reading), (1924-Premier in Derby), (1927-London Run), (1927-NYC Run) -> Screen (1931-Universal Studios)
Side Note: After the A-Bomb, Japan had a rise in popularity w/horror movies.
-Cold War - increased fear=> more scary possibility of war 50s, 60s, and 70s
-Fewer vampire films were made (humorous) 50s in the US
-However in England (50s), the Horror of Dracula was made (1st technicolor vampire movie)
---->the 1st British actor to play a Vampire of the (Hamner?)
---->Christopher Lee was the 2nd to wear fangs while the first actor to wear fangs was in Nosferatu
Main notes:
Stoker's Input for the novel
-Stoker was a good accountant
-his first book was nonfiction "Duties of the clerk"
-1890- wrote an Irish adventure novel "Snakes Pass"
-wrote children's story (w/plague, infanticide and death)
-1887- Stoker created a story called the Dualitists or the Death Doom of the Double Born
---->duality was important in this story
---->the character had this bond that each person is dual (conscious and unconscious minds (body and soul)
-the story of novel that 2 malicious boys play a game of hack, where they dismember dolls and then cats and then these two neighborhood twins by beating them against each other. The parents shoot @ the boys but kill the babies and the boys claim that they were innocent and get away with no punishment while the parents are tried.
-1890- Dracula (the manuscript was typed in 1890s and is now in Philadelphia)
-Stoker was inspired by Lefanu's Carmilla (about a female vampire in Austria)
-the first locale was a place called Styria then Translyvania
-he had 3 working titles, the Undead, Count Dracula, and the Dead Undead
-the novel was a product of his subconscious
-Stoker wrote 50 letters a day b/c of his job
-this novel (Dracula) was the key to the darker side of the Victorian era
- thoughts and feelings were repressed b.c it couldn't be expressed
-also thought to be a xynophobic (fear of foreigners)
-occult- communication w/the spirit world
-thought to be connected w/Marxism
-Stoker works in an intuitive manner
-Published in May or June 1897
-it was a staged reading of the novel (not really a performance)
-to preserve the copyright of any play about the novel
-the novel was modern at that time
-Nosferatu was played in a Berlin Zoo
-later music was composed by Hans Berdemon
-Stoker's novel doesn't say that Dracula is supernatural but Nosferatu clearly indicates Dracula is supernatural
-widow won copyrights from Prana films
-In 1927- Hamilton Dean produced and acted Dracula in London w/copyright permission
-Harvey Lindweight produced it on Broadway but many people didn't like it
-it ran in NY for 33 weeks
-In 1932, Universal studios bought rights of Dracula and a pirate copy of Nosferatu
-Louis Bromfield (writer) Dracula
-Feb. 29, 1930
-Friday, 12th 1931 was previewed
-Notes on the Novel- the novel is epistolary (written in a series of letters)
*Thanks Sameera Gadiyaram*
