{"id":18744,"date":"2018-06-08T01:03:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18744"},"modified":"2018-06-08T01:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T00:03:29","slug":"the-south-bank-show-dracula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/06\/08\/the-south-bank-show-dracula\/","title":{"rendered":"The South Bank Show: Dracula"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While illustrating Dracula<\/em><\/a> earlier this year I was listening to Wojciech Kilar’s soundtrack to Francis Coppola’s Dracula<\/em> to sustain the vampiric mood. I also watched Coppola’s film again, it’s an adaptation I enjoy a great deal despite its flaws. (This post<\/a> detailed some of the plus points.) The South Bank Show<\/em>‘s programme devoted to Dracula<\/a> on page and screen was broadcast in early 1993, timed for the opening of Coppola’s film in the UK. I watched this when it was first shown, and remembered it being a good one but neglected to go searching for it back in January. I also remembered it being more about Coppola’s film than it is, although there’s still enough to make it a substantial promo piece.<\/p>\n

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The territory here may be familiar but the evolution of Stoker’s novel is contextualised by some expert commentators\u2014Leonard Wolf, Elaine Showalter (with a copy of Bram Dijkstra’s Idols of Perversity<\/em> at her side) and Christopher Frayling\u2014while discussion of the film adaptations includes Christopher Lee, Francis Coppola, James V. Hart (the screenwriter of Coppola’s film), Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and others. Among the film clips there are several scenes from Count Dracula<\/em><\/a>, Gerald Savory’s 1977 adaptation for the BBC. This is surprising since The South Bank Show<\/em> was screened by the BBC’s rival, ITV. But Savory’s Count Dracula<\/em> is still the most faithful screen adaptation that I’ve seen (and possibly the most\u00a0faithful to date) so it’s a worthwhile choice, and one whose naturalism makes a sober contrast to Coppola’s Sturm und Drang<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Illustrating Dracula<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Frankenstein<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dracula and I by Christopher Lee<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Dracula Annual<\/a>
\n\u2022 Nightmare: The Birth of Horror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Albin Grau\u2019s Nosferatu<\/a>
\n\u2022 Count Dracula<\/a>
\n\u2022 Symbolist cinema<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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