Description
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner
Part I: Between text and image
2: Gothic wars – media's lust: on the cultural afterlife of the war dead – Elisabeth Bronfen
3: Kingdom of shadows: fin-de-siècle gothic and early cinema – Paul Foster
4: ‘A mirror with a memory’: the development of the negative in Victorian gothic – Gregory Brophy
5: Modern phantasmagorias and visual culture in Wilkie Collins’s Basil – Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Part II: Sounding spectres
6: ‘The earth died screaming’: Tom Waits’s Bone Machine – Steen Christiansen
7: Ghosts of the Gristleized – Dean Lockwood
Part III: Moving media
8: ‘Nineteenth century (up-to-date) with a vengeance’: vampirism, Victorianism and collage in Guy Maddin’s Dracula – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary – Dorothea Schuller
9: Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Neil Burger’s The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser’s short stories – Jean-François Baillon
10: Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the gothic personae in bizarre magic – Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan
11: Body genres, night vision and the female monster: REC and the contemporary horror film – Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
12: You have been saved: digital memory and salvation – Stephen Curtis
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