Cinematic ghosts : haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era /: haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era. (2015 copyright 2015)
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- Title:
- Cinematic ghosts : haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era /: haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era. (2015 copyright 2015)
- Main Title:
- Cinematic ghosts : haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Murray Leeder.
- Editors:
- Leeder, Murray, 1982-
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements IntroductionMurray Leeder, University of Calgary, CanadaGhosts of Pre-Cinema and Silent CinemaChapter 1Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films and Photography's UncannyTom Gunning, University of Chicago, USA Chapter 2"Visualizing the Phantoms of the Imagination": Projecting Haunted Minds Murray Leeder, University of Calgary, Canada Chapter 3Specters of the Mind: Ghosts, Illusion, and Exposure in Paul Leni's The Cat and the CanarySimone Natale, Humboldt University, Germany Chapter 4Supernatural Speech: Silent Cinema's Stake in Visualizing the Impossible Robert Alford, University of California, Berkeley, USA Cinematic Ghosts from the 1940s through the 1980sChapter 5Bad Sync: Spectral Sound and Retro-effects in Portrait of Jennie Rene; Thoreau Bruckner, University of Southern California, USA Chapter 6"Antique Chiller": Quality, Pretention and History in the Critical Reception of The Innocents and The Haunting Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia, UK Chapter 7Shadows of Shadows: The Undead in Ingmar Bergman's Cinema Maurizio Cinquegrani, University of Kent, UK Chapter 8Locating the Spectre in Dan Curtis's Burnt Offerings Dara Downey, University College Dublin, Ireland Chapter 9The Bawdy Body in Two Comedy Ghost Films: Topper and Beetlejuice Katherine A. Fowkes, High Point University, USA Millennial GhostsChapter 10"I See Dead People": Visualizing Ghosts in the Horror FilmMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements IntroductionMurray Leeder, University of Calgary, CanadaGhosts of Pre-Cinema and Silent CinemaChapter 1Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films and Photography's UncannyTom Gunning, University of Chicago, USA Chapter 2"Visualizing the Phantoms of the Imagination": Projecting Haunted Minds Murray Leeder, University of Calgary, Canada Chapter 3Specters of the Mind: Ghosts, Illusion, and Exposure in Paul Leni's The Cat and the CanarySimone Natale, Humboldt University, Germany Chapter 4Supernatural Speech: Silent Cinema's Stake in Visualizing the Impossible Robert Alford, University of California, Berkeley, USA Cinematic Ghosts from the 1940s through the 1980sChapter 5Bad Sync: Spectral Sound and Retro-effects in Portrait of Jennie Rene; Thoreau Bruckner, University of Southern California, USA Chapter 6"Antique Chiller": Quality, Pretention and History in the Critical Reception of The Innocents and The Haunting Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia, UK Chapter 7Shadows of Shadows: The Undead in Ingmar Bergman's Cinema Maurizio Cinquegrani, University of Kent, UK Chapter 8Locating the Spectre in Dan Curtis's Burnt Offerings Dara Downey, University College Dublin, Ireland Chapter 9The Bawdy Body in Two Comedy Ghost Films: Topper and Beetlejuice Katherine A. Fowkes, High Point University, USA Millennial GhostsChapter 10"I See Dead People": Visualizing Ghosts in the Horror Film Before the Arrival of CGI Steffen Hantke, Sogang University, KoreaChapter 11Spectral Remainders and Transcultural Hauntings: (Re)iterations of the Onryo in ContemporaryJapanese Horror Cinema Jay McRoy, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, USA Chapter 12Painted Skin: Romance with the Ghostly Femme Fatale in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Li Zeng, Illinois State University, USA Chapter 13"It's Not the House that's Haunted": Demons, Debt and the Family in Peril in Recent Horror CinemaBernice M. Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Chapter 14Glitch Gothic Marc Olivier, Brigham Young University, USA Chapter 15Showing the Unknown: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Carleton University, Canada Afterword: Haunted Viewers Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University, USA. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Subjects:
- 791.43657
Films, cinema
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
Horror & ghost stories
Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism
Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General
Film: styles & genres
Ghosts in motion pictures
Supernatural in motion pictures - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781628922165
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