Gothic machine : textualities, pre-cinematic media and film in popular visual culture, 1670-1910 / David J. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, David J.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic library studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Almost everyone loves a good horror film but how did they originate? Audiences thrilled and shuddered at ghosts and monsters projected on screens all over Europe for centuries before film was born. This pioneering book traces the origins and development of the magic lantern shows of fear and reveals their close relation to the great upsurge in Gothic writing, so popular with readers today.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; Memento Mori, Griendel and the Forerunners, Schröpferand Schiller: German Popular Visual Culture 1670-1800. Friedrich Schiller's Der Geisterseher/The Ghost-Seer, Sturm und Drang and Magic-Lantern Shows; Matthew Lewis's The Monk, the Marquis de Sade andInter-Medial Influence: The Publishers, Readership,Visual Spectacle and the Staging of Gothic 1790-1830; Etienne-Gaspard Robertson's Gothic Fantasmagorie and E. T. A. Hoffmann

Gothic Renewal and Bifurcation: Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Strange Tale, Charles Dickens, Pepper's Ghost and Etienne-Jules Marey.The Daguerreotype and Diablerie in French Visual Media'In or around the Winter, 1895': From the Prelude toCinema Proper. French Gothic Symbolism, Villiersde L'Isle-Adam, J.-K. Huysmans, the féeries of Georges Méliès and Alice Guy Blaché's Esmeralda; 'Another Kind of Showman': Robert Louis Stevenson,Bram Stoker, Robert Paul, Albert Smith and Film's First Frankenstein. Anglo-American Gothic in the Age of the First Films 1895-1910; Conclusion: French Extremity; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-20099-0

0-7083-2408-8

OCLC:

769342474