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The ghost in the image : technology and reality in the horror genre / Cecilia Sayad.
LIBRA P96.G56 S29 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sayad, Cecilia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghosts in mass media.
- Spirit photography.
- Ghosts in popular culture.
- Mass media--Technological innovations.
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The Ghost in the Image offers a new take on the place that supernatural phenomena occupy in everyday life by examining the horror genre in fiction, documentary and participative modes. The book covers a variety of media: spirit photography, ghost-hunting reality shows, documentary and fiction films based on the Amityville and Enfield hauntings, found-footage horror movies, experiential cinema, survival games, and creepypasta. These works transform our interest in ghosts into an interactive form of entertainment. Through a transmedial approach to horror, this book investigates our expectations about the ability of photography and video to work as evidence. A historical examination of technology's role in at once showing and forging truths invites questions about our investment in its powers, which is pertinent to the so-called post-fact scenario. Behind our obsession with documenting everyday life lies the hope that our cameras will reveal something extraordinary. The obsessive search for ghosts in the image, however, shows that the desire to find them is matched by the pleasure of calling a hoax"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Seeking ghosts: Spirit photography, reality television, and the web
- 2. Serial tellers: The factual recreations of the Amityville and Enfield hauntings
- 3. Beyond the frame: Found-footage horror and the uncontainable
- 4. Beyond film: The reality of participation in experiential cinema and games.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sayad, Cecilia. Ghost in the image
- ISBN:
- 9780190065768
- 0190065761
- 9780190065775
- 019006577X
- OCLC:
- 1257292109
- Publisher Number:
- 99989249307
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