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Dark Dukes: 100 Years of the Vampire Film
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The Dukes, Moor Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1QE
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From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
F. W. Murnau’s silent masterpiece Nosferatu, often identified as the first vampire film, is 100 years old this year. Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, an Oscar-winning extravaganza, which revived the vampire film for a new generation, is 30.
In this talk, Professor Catherine Spooner will explore why the vampire film has proved perennially popular, showing how the genre has moved from horror to romance and beyond, becoming a truly international phenomenon in the process. Along the way she will revisit old favourites and introduce some new ones, many of which are showing during the Dark Dukes festival. Catherine Spooner is a professor of literature and culture at the department of english and creative writing at Lancaster University, where she specialises in Gothic literature, film and popular culture.
Dark Dukes is a new festival for Lancaster, launching this Halloween and celebrating all things disturbing and spooky. Across five days the festival will showcase an array of contemporary and classic horror films.
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Partner of Visit Lancashire 2018Morecambe, Lancaster and the Lune Valley is located in Lancashire, in the Northwest of England. Exit the M6 Motorway at Junction 34 and follow signs for Lancaster. Join the one way system (Caton Road) and pass small retail park on left on approach to traffic lights. Turn left following signs for Lancaster City Centre. Once on the one-way system keep in the left-hand lane and follow the brown heritage signs for The Dukes.
Turn left from railway station, follow signs to city centre and walk through pedestrianised shopping area, past Boots and cross Great John Street over to Moor Lane where The Dukes is situated.
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