Steven J. Walden is a film theorist and social historian, UK CertFAIII forensic anthropologist, Royal Society of Biology chartered biologist, and registered intellectual disabilities nurse. He is a PhD advisor with wide ranging research interests, holds PhDs in forensic anthropology and film history, and currently teaches intellectual disabilities nursing at the University of South Wales, Pontypridd, where he is a member of several research groups and works with the USW Cold Case Unit on found human remains casework.

Table of Contents

Preface

Section I-Introducing Dracula's Cinematic Psychohistory

1.Introduction

Resurrections and Repercussions

Why This Book?

2.Historicism and Psychohistoricism

Reading Movies from the Psychohistoricist Perspective

3.Dracula and Vampire Theory

Section II-Universal Dracula: The 1930s and 1940s

[...] Universal Dracula Cycle

5.Psychoanalytic Symbolism in Browning's and Melford's 1931 Dracula Movies

The Penetrating Gaze, Abusive Scopophilia, Sublimation and Retribution

Dracula and Other Gangsters from the Id

[...] Psychological Drama of Son of Dracula

Bad Father, Worse Daughter

Freud's Psychopathic Femme Fatale on the Stage

[...] Monster Rallies: Locating Dualism in Kenton's Universal Horror Films

Personas, Shadows and Uncanny Doubles

Monstrous Queer Pathology and Persecution during World War II

[...] Universal Dracula Movies: The Psychohistoricism of the Cycle

Section III-Dracula Reinvented: The Long 1960s

[...] Hammer Dracula Cycle: 1958-1972

Hutchings, Psychohistoricism and Hammer's Dracula

Coalescing Psychoanalytical Symbolism in Hammer's Dracula Cycle

10.Dracula at the End of the Long 1960s

Psychosexual Symbolism in Franco's Bram Stoker's Count Dracula (1970)

Outlining Narcissistic Rage in Dan Curtis' Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973)

Threads of Commonality

11.A Trajectory of Narcissism: Hammer's Dracula and the Cult of the Vampire Libertine

Franco's Ageless Dracula: Preserving the Self by Controlling Others

Narcissistic Leaders' Rage in Three Draculas of the Long 1960s

Benign Narcissism and a Counterculture Fear of Death

Malign Narcissism and the Fear of the Cult Leader

[...] of Death and Fear of Dracula in the Long 1960s Cycle of Movies

Section IV-The Long 1980s: Obsolescence, Reconstruction and Sympathy for the Vampire

[...] Long 1980s Dracula Movie Cycle

[...] Return of Repressive Symbolism in John Badham's Dracula (1979)

The Superphallic Patriarch versus the Polyphallic Feminist

The Ego State of Vampirized Feminism at the Beginning of the Long 1980s

15.Symbolizing the Monstrous Feminine in The Monster Squad's Narrative

An Oedipal Voyage Around Three Fathers

Therapy Culture for Dracula's Diminished Self? No Fear for Generation X

[...] Sacrifice in Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Dracula's Freudian Melancholy Resolved

Dracula, Degenerative Disease and the Fin de Siècle

[...] of Fear: The Long 1980s Dracula Movies as a Cycle of Change

Section V-The Postmillennial Cycle: Dracula Becomes the Hero

18.Traitors, Dictators and Superheroes

19.Dracula 2000: The Dead Father's Return and the Birth of a Superhero

A Hollow Oedipal Victory over Millenarianism

Dracula's Neofascist Millenarianism

[...] Return to Dyadic Repression in Sommers' Van Helsing (2004)

A Problematic Recovery from Repression

Somatizing Guilt in Unjust Wars

21.Freudian Totemic Oedipality in Dario Argento's Dracula (2012)

The Omnipotence of Argento's Narcissistic Benevolent Dictator

Dracula and the Neofascist Legacy of Italian Populism

22.Superhero Identity in Gary Shore's Dracula Untold (2014)

The Repressed Superhero Unmasked

Dracula Retold as a Mythic Tragedy of Leadership

[...] Postmillennial Dracula Cinematic Cycle: Lost Fear and the Leadership of the Other

Conclusion: Loss of Fear and Gaining Sympathy as Cycles Intersect

Filmography

Bibliography

Index