This talk will explore British film company Hammer’s long relationship with Stoker, focusing on their reinvention of Stoker’s Dracula (1958), expanding the characters suggested in the original novel and the tension between the cinematic icon and literary construct. The talk will also look at subsequent citations of Hammer’s Dracula in other media, and the ultimate appropriation of the Dracula character by the film company.
A secondary thread explores Hammer’s adaptation of Stoker’s novel, The Jewel of the Seven Stars – in Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb and the ill-fated attempts to bring a semi-biographical film on Stoker to the screen in the 1980s and 1990s, a project which pre-empted the fusion of fact and fiction in Shadow Of The Vampire, a film about the making of Muranu’s Nosferatu.
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