{"product_id":"cinematic-ghosts-haunting-and-spectrality-from-silent-cinema-to-the-digital-era-9781628922134","title":"Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema \"the Kingdom of Shadows.\" In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted and the ghostly.\u003ci\u003e Cinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies’ phantoms.  \u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e contains essays revisiting some classic ghost films within the genres of horror (\u003ci\u003eThe Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e, 1963), romance (\u003ci\u003ePortrait of Jennie\u003c\/i\u003e, 1948), comedy (\u003ci\u003eBeetlejuice, \u003c\/i\u003e1988) and the art film (\u003ci\u003eUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010), as well as essays dealing with a number of films from around the world, from Sweden to China. \u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e traces the archetype of the cinematic ghost from the silent era until today, offering analyses from a range of historical, aesthetic and theoretical dimensions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is much to interest readers and the book will (dare I say it) leave them in good spirits ... A thoughtful and entertaining addition to any film or religion studies collection, whether for personal or professional purposes, at undergraduate or postgraduate level. * Alphaville *\u003cbr\u003eThe stand out feature of this collection is the diagnostic links between the content of ghost films and the ghostly techniques through which they are shot, a level of connection that puts Leeder’s text a step ahead of other purely thematic approaches to ghosts and haunted cinema. \u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is just as much about ghostly cinematics, adding appeal to scholars of film production and spectral narratives alike. * Gothic Studies *\u003cbr\u003eCinema has always been a ghostly medium.  Now we finally have a book that explores film’s relation to ghosts with the breadth and depth it deserves, moving deftly across historical periods, genre classifications, and national origins.  This is a rich and varied collection that will haunt – in all the right ways – a broad range of readers, scholars, and students. * Adam Lowenstein, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA, and author of Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media *\u003cbr\u003eGhosts have haunted film from its earliest years to the present day, as this volume admirably demonstrates. It is impressive for its chronological and geographical range, and for the consistent quality of the contributions. Breaking new ground in exploring the interlinked theoretical, cultural and national stakes of cinematic haunting, this invaluable collection is certain to be a standard reference point for all future work in the field. * Colin Davis, Research Chair in French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and author of Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead *\u003cbr\u003eMurray Leeder’s strongly focused collection adds another exhilarating twist to the spectral turn by providing a welcome opportunity to reflect on the enduring notion of cinema as a haunted\/haunting medium. Asking where non-figurative cinematic ghosts have been and where they might be going, a series of engaging contributions systematically charts the changing narrative, visual and sonic modes of haunting from the silent era to the digital age. Throughout, \u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e shows great sensitivity to the ghost’s cultural and historical specificity and, in terms of the films discussed, effectively–and fittingly–combines the expected with the unexpected. * Esther Peeren, Associate Professor in Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and co-editor of The Spectralities Reader *\u003cbr\u003eWhether you've accepted a dare to spend one night in a haunted house or just have an interest in ghosts on the silver screen, Murray Leeder's \u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading. Ranging from the origins of cinematic ghosts in nineteenth-century phantasmagoria to twenty-first century \"glitch gothic,\" and from classic Western hauntings such as the \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents \u003c\/i\u003eto the Asian \u003ci\u003eonryo\u003c\/i\u003e, this broad and engaging collection of essays--the first such collection specifically on cinematic ghosts--offers a lively, much-needed analysis of the history and appeal of movie phantoms. International in scope and historicist in approach, \u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly showcases the depth and richness of supernatural film and will haunt all subsequent approaches to the topic. Ghostbusters, step aside. Murray Leeder is now the one to call if there's something strange in your neighborhood! * Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Professor of English, Central Michigan University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   Introduction\u003ci\u003e Murray Leeder, University of Calgary, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e Ghosts of Pre-Cinema and Silent Cinema  \u003c\/b\u003eChapter 1 Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films and Photography’s Uncanny\u003ci\u003e Tom Gunning, University of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e USA\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 2 “Visualizing the Phantoms of the Imagination”: Projecting Haunted Minds \u003ci\u003e Murray Leeder, University of Calgary, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 3 Specters of the Mind: Ghosts, Illusion, and Exposure in Paul Leni’s \u003ci\u003eThe Cat and the Canary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Simone Natale, Humboldt University, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 4 Supernatural Speech: Silent Cinema's Stake in Visualizing the Impossible \u003ci\u003e Robert Alford, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003e Cinematic Ghosts from the 1940s through the 1980s\u003c\/b\u003e  Chapter 5 Bad Sync: Spectral Sound and Retro-effects in \u003ci\u003ePortrait of Jennie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e René Thoreau Bruckner, University of Southern California, USA\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 6 “Antique Chiller”: Quality, Pretention and History in the Critical Reception of \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia, UK\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 7 Shadows of Shadows: The Undead in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema \u003ci\u003e Maurizio Cinquegrani, University of Kent, UK\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 8 Locating the Spectre in Dan Curtis’s \u003ci\u003eBurnt Offerings\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e Dara Downey, University College Dublin, Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 9 The Bawdy Body in Two Comedy Ghost Films: \u003ci\u003eTopper\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeetlejuice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e Katherine A. Fowkes, High Point University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003e Millennial Ghosts\u003c\/b\u003e  Chapter 10 “I See Dead People”: Visualizing Ghosts in the Horror Film Before the Arrival of CGI \u003ci\u003e Steffen Hantke, Sogang University, Korea\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 11 Spectral Remainders and Transcultural Hauntings: (Re)iterations of the \u003ci\u003eOnryo \u003c\/i\u003ein Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema \u003ci\u003e Jay McRoy, University of Wisconsin – Parkside, USA\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 12\u003ci\u003e Painted Skin\u003c\/i\u003e: Romance with the Ghostly Femme Fatale in Contemporary Chinese Cinema \u003ci\u003e Li Zeng, Illinois State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 13 “It’s Not the House that’s Haunted”: Demons, Debt and the Family in Peril in Recent Horror Cinema \u003ci\u003eBernice M. Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 14 Glitch Gothic \u003ci\u003e Marc Olivier, Brigham Young University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e     Chapter 15 Showing the Unknown: \u003ci\u003eUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Carleton University, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e     Afterword: Haunted Viewers \u003ci\u003e Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771397603671,"sku":"9781628922134","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781628922134.jpg?v=1758727684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cinematic-ghosts-haunting-and-spectrality-from-silent-cinema-to-the-digital-era-9781628922134","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}