{"id":94250,"date":"2016-02-09T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=94250"},"modified":"2016-02-09T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:35:10","slug":"debating-draculas-roots-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/debating-draculas-roots-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Debating Dracula\u2019s Roots, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94251\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dracula_5036388636.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94251\" class=\"wp-image-94251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dracula_5036388636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dracula_5036388636.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dracula_5036388636-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dracula_5036388636-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dracula_5036388636-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Greg Willis<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Breaking news: Bram Stoker\u2019s great-grand-nephew has rejected a scholar\u2019s recent claim that Dracula hailed not from Transylvania but from Exeter. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/feb\/08\/dracula-was-not-from-exeter-insists-bram-stoker-descendant\" target=\"_blank\">People will be surprised and sometimes shocked by my findings, as most of what they now hold true will be proven to be false<\/a>,\u201d the scholar\u00a0said humbly. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit like finding out who Father Christmas really is.\u201d Dacre Stoker retorts: \u201cEveryone tries to find something a little bit new or different about Dracula, even now, 118 years after it was published, which is wonderful &#8230; But to me it is a bit of a stretch to argue that Dracula came from Exeter.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Maurice White died last week, prompting Sam Lipsyte to remember \u201csome odd family history\u201d: \u201cIn 1975, when I was eight, a film called\u00a0<em>That\u2019s the Way of the World\u00a0<\/em>was released in America. Harvey Keitel starred in the story of a hotshot record producer\u2019s struggles with art and mammon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/sam-lipsyte\/earth-wind-fire-and-fathers\/\" target=\"_blank\">The screenplay was written by my father, the sports journalist and fiction writer Robert Lipsyte, and the soundtrack was by Earth, Wind and Fire<\/a>, who also appear in the movie as the Group, a band with a groundbreaking sound but not enough commercial appeal \u2026 White called my father a few years ago and asked him to write the liner notes for a reissue of\u00a0<em>That\u2019s the Way of the World<\/em>. They had some long conversations my father cherished.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in improbable connections between Oscar contenders and classic American lit: Mark Mangini, the sound designer for <em>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em>, says he put together the film\u2019s aural palette with Melville in mind: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/11054-how-moby-dick-inspired-the-sound-design-of-mad-max-fury-road?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=on_site&amp;utm_campaign=desktop\" target=\"_blank\">I had this notion that the truck itself was an allegory for\u00a0<em>Moby Dick<\/em><\/a> \u2026 We wanted to personify it as this giant, growling, breathing, roaring beast \u2026 It had to be grounded in reality, but we wanted it to be more than that, so we designed whale sounds to play underneath all those truck sounds to embody the real sounds and to personify it \u2026 We go into a beautiful ballet-like slow motion sequence as the War Rig upends and turns on its side and crashes. All those sounds, there are no realistic sounds there. Those are all whale sounds and actually slowed-down bear sounds,\u201d He said. \u201cWhat we wanted to say to the audience was, \u2018This is a death. This is the death of the great white whale.\u2019 All you hear as it rolls over in slow motion is the final death rattle of a dying creature. It just felt like the right sound to use.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A. O. Scott\u2019s new book <em>Better Living Through Criticism <\/em>provides critics with an unprecedented, mouth-watering opportunity to review criticism itself. Christian Lorentzen is up to the task, so much so that he went on a road trip with A. O. Scott just to talk about it: \u201c \u2018To the extent that there\u2019s a polemical thrust that this book has,\u2019 Scott told me, \u2018it\u2019s a fairly simple one: in favor of thinking. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/02\/on-criticism-my-road-trip-with-ao-scott.html\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s against the notion that we\u2019re just supposed to have fun. Turn off your brain and eat your popcorn. I\u2019m offended by that<\/a>. If someone is spending $200 million to make and market a movie, there\u2019s no way you can say, \u201cThat\u2019s just nothing.\u201d Plus, it\u2019s two hours of your own life, $15 of your own money, and all the dreams and emotions you bring into the theater with you. Why empty out your own experience? Why be passive about it? Why accept it on the terms that it\u2019s given to you? The book is a plea to be more active, more engaged, and more thoughtful.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Remember when Malcolm McLaren released an opera record? I don\u2019t either, but Stephen Akey does, and he remains really fond of the thing: \u201cIf on the radio that day I hadn\u2019t heard Malcolm McLaren\u2019s gleefully debased six-minute version [of <em>Madame Butterfly<\/em>]\u2014identified by the disc jockey as the first of six workings of Puccini on an album by McLaren called <em>Fans<\/em>\u2014I might never have known grand opera at all \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/a-fan-of-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fans<\/em>\u00a0survives McLaren\u2019s brazen talentlessness because the concept animating it is so ingenious and because McLaren was smart enough to hire accomplished musicians to execute the concept<\/a> \u2026 It may be that <em>Fans\u00a0<\/em>is little more than a clever novelty item with classical pretensions, but I think that McLaren\u2019s cleverness points to a profound intuition about opera, namely, that it\u00a0is\u00a0(or at least can be) a music of the masses.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news: Bram Stoker\u2019s great-grand-nephew has rejected a scholar\u2019s recent claim that Dracula hailed not from Transylvania but from Exeter. \u201cPeople will be surprised and sometimes shocked by my findings, as most of what they now hold true will be proven to be false,\u201d the scholar\u00a0said humbly. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit like finding out who Father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[21092,21088,4454,478,1214,21090,5965,21091,21093,21089,952,2204,516],"class_list":["post-94250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-a-o-scott","tag-birthplaces","tag-bram-stoker","tag-criticism","tag-dracula","tag-earth-wind-and-fire","tag-fans","tag-mad-max","tag-malcolm-mclaren","tag-maurice-white","tag-moby-dick","tag-opera","tag-sam-lipsyte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - 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