Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. In addition to examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers like Georges Méliès and George Albert Smith, it also engages with the representations of cinema’s ghostly past in Guy Maddin’s recent online project Seances (2016).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-05
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:296 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:209
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349844562

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Teater inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Murray Leeder teaches Film Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada, and holds a PhD from Carleton University. He is the author of Horror Film: A Critical Introduction (forthcoming) and Halloween (2014) and editor of Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era (2015).

Recensioner i media

“The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema is a cornucopia of ideas, arguments and images both scrupulously well researched and highly readable. This original exploration of film history makes for one of the most pleasurable books I’ve read in 2017.” (Alan Price, The Magonia Blog, pelicanist.blogspot.de, April 05, 2019)

Innehållsförteckning

1.Introduction.- 2. The Haunting of Film Theory.- 3. Light and Lies: Screen Practice and (Super-) Natural Magic.- 4. The Strange Case of George Albert Smith: Mesmerism, Psychical Research and Cinema.- 5. Aesthetics of Co-Registration: Spirit Photography, X-Rays and Cinema.- 6. Méliès’s Skeleton: Gender, Cinema’s Danse Macabre and the Erotics of Bone.- 7. Living Pictures at Will: Projecting Haunted Minds.- 8. Conclusion: Lost Worlds, Ghost Worlds.