Dracula's Cinematic Psychohistory

<p> Dracula is a recognized resilient and recurrent cultural property. He is idolized loved vilified and hated as a multifaceted perennial narrative focus that involves the interplay between film-as-art and its psychosocial milieu. Dracula's movies can thus be read as a cultural barometer reflecting the culture we create and re-create in his many cinematic guises: an object of attraction and terror antihero and villain lover and monster even victim and stooge. This book follows Dracula's cinematic journey exploring how he continues to tap into the ever-changing collective psyche of his viewers. Many of those viewers may have entertained the thought that the fearful bite of the vampire might just be a worthwhile price to pay for the empowerment of being one.</p>