Vampires - How Hollywood transformed Literature's most repellent Monsters into most Seductive of Corpses

And an analysis of them over-all

Hollywood is like all other film-producers by now has been well-recognized as a place where American propaganda is produced. In the 1930s many movies were made that lacked any real propaganda, while those in the 40s were anti-Nazi as America after all had a war to fight. The 50s was an odd era, a transitory one, with the 60s and 70s being an age of adap…