RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Málek, Petr
T1 Adaptation as "Reading Against the Grain". Stoker's Dracula
JF Iluminace
YR 2010
VO 22
IS 1
SP 101
OP 129
UL https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201001-0006.php
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.