Cinematic ghosts
Subtitle: haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era
By: edited by Murray Leeder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781628922134; 9781628922141
Subjects: Supernatural in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures
Description: "A collection of essays that explores the various roles ghosts have played in motion pictures, spanning a range of time periods, genres and nations"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Murray Leeder -- Part one,; title: Ghosts of Pre-Cinema and Silent Cinema.; title: Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations : Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films and Photography's Uncanny  -- Tom Gunning; title: "Visualizing the Phantoms of the Imagination" : Projecting Haunted Minds  -- Murray Leeder; title: Specters of the Mind : Ghosts, Illusion, and Exposure in Paul Leni's The Cat and the Canary  -- Simone Natale; title: Supernatural Speech : Silent Cinema's Stake in Visualizing the Impossible -- Robert Alford; title: Part two,; title: Cinematic Ghosts from the 1940s through the 1980s.; title: Bad Sync : Spectral Sound and Retro-effects in Portrait of Jennie  -- René Thoreau Bruckner; title: "Antique Chiller" : Quality, Pretention and History in the Critical Reception of The Innocents and The Haunting  -- Mark Jancovich; title: Shadows of Shadows : The Undead in Ingmar Bergman's Cinema  -- Maurizio Cinquegrani; title: Locating the Spectre in Dan Curtis's Burnt Offerings  -- Dara Downey; title: The Bawdy Body in Two Comedy Ghost Films : Topper and Beetlejuice -- Katherine A. Fowkes; title: Part three,; title: Millennial Ghosts .; title: "I See Dead People" : Visualizing Ghosts in the Horror Film Before the Arrival of CGI  -- Steffen Hantke; title: Spectral Remainders and Transcultural Hauntings : (Re)iterations of the Onryo in Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema  -- Jay McRoy; title: Painted Skin : Romance with the Ghostly Femme Fatale in Contemporary Chinese Cinema  -- Li Zeng; title: "It's Not the House that's Haunted" : Demons, Debt and the Family in Peril in Recent Horror Cinema  -- Bernice M. Murphy; title: Glitch Gothic  -- Marc Olivier; title: Showing the Unknown : Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives  -- Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- Afterword.; title: Haunted Viewers -- Jeffrey Sconce.