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