J Frid & DS Featured in New Book!

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« on: May 25, 2007, 03:49:34 PM »

I haven't gotten it yet, it's on order, but McFarland Publishing has a new book called
The Changing Vampire of Film & Television.
A collage on the cover includes a shot I've seen elsewhere from 1968 of JF as Barnabas.

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Re: J Frid & DS Featured in New Book!

« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2007, 04:51:25 PM »

Indeed! Below is the link to Amazon. (hopefully it will work)

The Changing Vampire of Film And Television: A Critical Study of the Growth of a Genre


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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2007, 08:09:29 PM »

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Re: J Frid & DS Featured in New Book!

« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2007, 08:58:10 PM »

Quote from: David on May 25, 2007, 03:49:34 PM

A collage on the cover includes a shot I've seen elsewhere from 1968 of JF as Barnabas.

Actually, it's a publicity shot from '67 for the Maggie kidnapping storyline.

Anyone who has DVD set #1 will probably recognize it as the photo used for the postcard in that set.

And I believe it or a variation of it appears in the PomPress books...


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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2007, 02:02:29 AM »

Thanks, MB. I KNEW I'd seen that pic before.

Welcome back, Buzz.
Your irreverence was both missed & needed.

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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2007, 01:55:44 PM »

I would order this book with caution. McFarland deserves credit for publishing works that attempt a scholarly look at horror/fantasy films, but are notoriously high-priced.

I special-ordered "Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion" at my local bookseller, and was sorely disappointed when it came in and I saw how thin it was (208 pages.) But I felt obligated to purchase it, and the title and synposis intrigued me nonetheless. When I got it home and cracked it open, more disappointment ensued - it read more like an average college thesis than the work of a competent scholar/author.

McFarland has released a lot of books - surely some of them are good, hopefully this one will be.


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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2007, 05:17:56 PM »

Quote from: retzev on May 26, 2007, 01:55:44 PM

I would order this book with caution. McFarland deserves credit for publishing works that attempt a scholarly look at horror/fantasy films, but are notoriously high-priced.

Unfortunately, $30-35 for a paperback from an academic press isn't out of the ordinary. I know someone who published a book within the past year or so through McFarland. They tend to publish stuff that wouldn't fly with some of the stodgier presses, usually involving the intersection of academia and pop culture. They're hardly iUniverse, but not everything they publish is wonderful, but you could say the same thing for Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge, or any other academic press (or any mass market press).