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ABSENT PRESENCES IN LIMINAL PLACES: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula

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From: Literature/Film Quarterly
Date: 20040101
Author:Catania, Saviour

"Life is nothings"1

- Bram Stoker

Athough the credits of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu2 acknowledge Bram Stoker's Dracula as the fictional source of Henrik Galeen's screenplay,3 most critics tend to dismiss any thematic connection between novel and film. To Lane Roth, for instance, Nosferatu, far from being "an individual filmrnaker's vision of a literary work," is essentially "an expression of the German Zeitgeist" of the Weimar Republic and, particularly, of the "mysticism and fantasy" that the expressionist Schauerfilm had inherited from traditional German Romanticism (312-13). David Walker ...

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