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Lecture One
Histories of Vampirism, Stoker, Rice, Middle Ages, Eighteenth Century /
Alcoholism etc. / Sexology or Cryptology / Succubus, Incubus, Antiquity,
Inquisitions, Vlad the Impaler, Countess Bathory
Lecture Two
Eighteenth Century Vampirism Epidemic in Eastern Europe, Journalistic
and
Scholarly Responses / The Plague, Discovery of Circulation, Psychoanalysis
Medical Explanations / Death's Make-over in the Eighteenth Century,
Live Burial, Projection
Lecture Three
Stoker's Dracula / Circulation / Trips / The Castle Inside Him / The Lady's
Lost Letters / Technologization and Group Psychologization / "Dracula's Guest"
Lecture Four
Stoker's Dracula / Totem and Taboo / Incest is the Law / The Two Women,
The Golden Lady, Hair Color Change, The New Woman
Lecture Five
Fourth of July / Mina's Gadget Love / The Telegraph / Cargo Cult / The Cemetery
in Whitby / Burial Service / The Recorded Voice Versus the Mass of Typewriting
Lecture Six
The Double Genealogy / Tales of Hoffmann / The Vampire is Sheer Image /
Murnau's Nosferatu / Nina's Bond With the Vampire Count / Release From
Empty Circulation / Herzog's Nosferatu / Not Seeing
Lecture Seven
Denial / Stoker's Knowledge of Psychoanalysis / Stoker's Mother / Postal
Pathology / Espionage and Psychological Warfare / Where the Technology Goes
When We Go to the Movies / Interview With the Vampire, Bram Stoker's
Dracula and Casper
Lecture Eight
Browning's Dracula and the Bicoastal Count / Cargo Cult on Rewind /
Deane and Balderston's Dracula or The Red Eye Special /
Lugosi's and Stoker's Lives and Plan Nine from Outer Space
Lecture Nine
"Dragula" or "TV" / Famous Impostors / Browning, Lon Chaney, Lugosi /
Ed Wood, Jr.'s Glen or Glenda, Killer in Drag, Death of a Transvestite / The Great-Nephew
Lecture Ten
Photography and the Mummy / Cinema, Cannibalism, and Melancholia / Back Home /
Mirror Stage / Double, Insurance, Substitution / "The Antimacassar"
Lecture Eleven
Station Identification / "The Horla" / The Force of Invisibility and
Posthypnotic Suggestion / "Human Remains" and Face Value / "Doom of
the House of Duryea"
Lecture Twelve
Phantom of the Opera / Ghosts of the Amplified Visual Sense / The Phantom Is
The Voice / Burying the Phonographic Record / My Poor Mother / Death Rock /
Bad Smell / The Lair of the White Worm / "The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady"
Lecture Thirteen
Le Fanu and "Carmilla" / The schloss / The Name That Must Not Vary / Supplying
the Loss of Mother / The Hunger
Lecture Fourteen
Dreyer's Vampyr / "Taboo Upon the Dead" / Painting vs. Film / "Revelations
in Black" and Blue / The Vampire Tapestry
Lecture Fifteen
'Salem's Lot and Danse Macabre / "They Bite" and Vietnam / "The Vampire"
and the Art of the Death Wish / "The Room in the Tower" and the Dream
from the Crypt / "Mrs. Amworth" and Double Burial / The Lost Boys,
California and the Gulf War
Lecture Sixteen
"For the Blood is the Life and the Miscarriage of the Antibody / "Four Wooden
Stakes" and the Mother is a Tramp / "Clarimonda" Plus One is Nun /
"Restless Souls" and Killing the Dead / "The Sad Story of a Vampire"
and Mama's Boy / "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" and Feedback
Lecture Seventeen
"The Tomb of Sarah" and Father Knows Best / Werewoman / Return of Dracula /
The Door of the Unreal / Werewolf of Paris / The Wolfman and the Living
Dad / I Was A Teenage Werewolf or Totem Becomes Mascot / "Lokis" / Lewton and
RKO Horror: The Leopard Man and Cat People / The Thing With Vampire Vegetables
Lecture Eighteen
Hypnosis and Telepathy / "The Tomb on Père Lachaise" / Embalming, Suspended
Animation, Astral Projection, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Freund's The Mummy /
Mummy Complex / The Black Cat / Schizomummies / The Unwrapping of Mummy Came First /
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned / "The Curse of Amen-Ra" / Gautier and Haggard / "Monkeys"
Lecture Nineteen
She and Ayesha / Invisibility / The Jewel of Seven Stars / The Great Experiment /
The Autotechnologizing Body / The Unconscious Father / Her Hand in Marriage /
Periodicity / Polidori's The Vampyre / Archaeology and Autoanalysis / Missing Persons
Lecture Twenty
"Return of the Undead" / Varney the Vampire / Group Psychology and the
Quotation Marx of Vampirism / Gambling / Rumor / Neighborly Love / Suicide /
Vampire Plays by Bouricault and Reece
Lecture Twenty-One
Gothic / Mary Shelley and Frankenstein / "Herbert West -- Reanimator" / William /
The Golem / Romero and Matheson
Lecture Twenty-Two
Whales's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein /
The Unmournables / Frankenstein / Faking Mourning / Doubled Departure / Shelley's
Preface / Dilation / Death Wish Fulfillment / William's Murder, Victor's Vampire /
The Mother's Portrait / Elizabeth is the Killer-Substitute / Flashback / The Alma Mater /
Elizabeth Must Die / The Missing Grave / The Monster Mourns /
Why Victor Can't Make the Mate / In Love With Electricity
Lecture Twenty-Three
The Crypt, the Mine, the Theme Park / Mad Love / Psycho / Peeping Tom /
Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and Body Double
Lecture Twenty-Four
Drag Race of Mourning and the Finish Line of AIDS / The Black Dahlia /
Vampire Detectives, Good Citizens, and Suicides / The Gilda Stories / Blood Price /
Interview With the Vampire / Lost Love / Nietzsche / Life Sucks / What's God
Got To Do With It? / Egotism / Life Is Killing / The Death Cult of Childhood / Locket
Lecture Twenty-Five
Revenge / "It Was" / I, Vampire / Nihilism / Eternal Return / Third Person Pronouns /
The Law of Pleasure
Lecture Twenty-Six
The Vampire Lestat / Relocation of Graves / The Théatre des Vampires / Over-Man /
Sacrificial Drive / Maternal Subcultures / Origin of Vampirism / Incest
is the Law / Rock Music / The Queen of the Damned / It's Time
