This is a poster for the 1931 film Dracula, an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Tod Browning and starred Bela Lugosi. Lugosi’s performance in the title role made him famous, and he went on to star in several other horror films.
There are numerous films based on Stoker’s novel. Browning’s was not the first – the silent film Nosferatu had been released in 1922 – but it is one of the most famous.
Professor Tim Youngs considers how Victorian authors chronicled and questioned Britain’s imperial expansion.
Greg Buzwell explores the story behind Bram Stoker's adaptation of Dracula for the theatre.
The vampire is a complicated creature: caught between life and death, at once alluring and horrifying. Greg Buzwell considers the way the novel reflects the fears that haunted late 19th-century society – fears of immigration, sexual promiscuity and moral degeneration.
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