Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects

Fred Botting is Professor in English at Kingston UniversityCatherine Spooner is Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University

• Introduction – Fred Botting and Catherine SpoonerPart I: Between text and image2: Gothic wars – media's lust: on the cultural afterlife of the war dead – Elisabeth Bronfen3: Kingdom of shadows: fin-de-siècle gothic and early cinema – Paul Foster4: ‘A mirror with a memory’: the development of the negative in Victorian gothic – Gregory Brophy5: Modern phantasmagorias and visual culture in Wilkie Collins’s Basil – Laurence Talairach-VielmasPart II: Sounding spectres6: ‘The earth died screaming’: Tom Waits’s Bone Machine – Steen Christiansen7: Ghosts of the Gristleized – Dean LockwoodPart III: Moving media8: ‘Nineteenth century (up-to-date) with a vengeance’: vampirism, Victorianism and collage in Guy Maddin’s Dracula – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary – Dorothea Schuller9: Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Neil Burger’s The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser’s short stories – Jean-François Baillon10: Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the gothic personae in bizarre magic – Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan11: Body genres, night vision and the female monster: REC and the contemporary horror film – Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet12: You have been saved: digital memory and salvation – Stephen CurtisIndex