Count Dracula Goes to the Movies by Lyndon Joslin
Is it a mature critical work? No, it isn't. No one even writes research papers like this. All of the reviews are highly emotional and subjective, they do not do justice to the movies reviewed and their academical value is close to nonexistent. After reading this book I continuously imagined the author is very young, for all his fan-boy rants and irrelevant commentary. Some IMDB-Reviews even are much better written. But wow - seriously - he, a 50-year-old fart by now, wasn't able to produce a mature academical text. Ok, this sounds like a rant too, but whoever judges all of the screen adaptations only in terms of their being close to the source material or not is plain stupid and, probably, never received a college/university education.
So I would definitely not recommend this book if you're doing some serious research in literary or film studies. It is sort of suitable as recreational reading if you completely agree with whatever the "author" of this review collection has to say, or have never seen any of the movies reviewed.
And for all of it's suggestive design and the catchphrase title. I'm disappointed.
Not that I like Coppola's adaptation of Dracula, but do you REALLY have to resort to commenting on actress' ears, which are too protruding for your PERSONAL taste, when arguing that it was a miscast? Gosh... facepalm. Go on and accuse the costume designer of the lack of knowledge about medieval east-european armour, when the whole concept of the costume design chosen was based on the theatralization effect and the grotesque. I'm just... almost speechless. His arguments are weak and overblown, while some of them can actually be valid, they're never sufficiently explored or grounded.
Are you really allowed to write reviews like that and then publish them?
He's a Texan. Nuff said.