
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
David J. Jones(Author)
University of Wales Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2011
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7083-2407-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book reveals some of the exciting inter-relations between Gothic Horror literature, film and magic lantern shows. It is an innovative work, providing new insights into how Gothic Horror as a whole started, with the genesis of the Frankenstein films, and encourages the reader to think of the relations between such books and films as one vibrant set of energies. It examines the connection between Gothic and film studies and the media. Jones provides a useful referencing tool for academic departments and explores the advent of film in the 1890's and its relation to French Symbolist literature, and the Lumieres Brothers, as well as the link between Schiller, de Sade and Robertson's Fantasmagorie.
Reviews / Votes
Gothic Machine is an interesting piece of scholarship precisely because it refuses that type of chronological and even sequential structure. Instead, it prefers to relish on the interconnections between different forms of media and how their languages may coalesce and expand our meaning and understanding of them. Aside from being a very thorough introduction to the role of visual technology and optical illusion up until the release of the first Frankenstein adaptation (J. Searle Dawley, 1910), Jones' book manages to achieve what only good academic volumes do: it creates an awareness of the pressing need to consider what had, until now, only been invoked as part of a niche area of study. Xavier Aldana Reyes, University of Lancaster This well-researched and well-written book makes a major contribution to the history of the magic lantern and its relationship to literature. Gothic Machine combines the author's first-hand familiarity with the magic lanterns and phantasmagoria and a deep knowledge of Gothic literature - It is impossible in a short summary to do justice to the richness of the scholarship in this book. The depth of scholarship - makes it a "must read" for anyone with serious interest in the history and culture of the magic lantern in relation to literature. Professor Kentwood D. Wells, Connecticut University Editor, The Magic Lantern Gazette. Nobel Prize-winning writer, Seamus Heaney has called Dr. Jones's criticism 'wonderfully sensitive and accurate'.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2407-3 (9780708324073)
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David J. Jones
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-Cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
E-Book
08/2011
1st Edition
University of Wales Press
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David J. Jones
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
E-Book
07/2011
1st Edition
University of Wales Press
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Person
Dr David J. Jones is a lecturer of Victorian, Modernist and Post-Colonial literatures on the Open University's B.A. and M.A. English Literature. He also taught Film Studies for fifteen years. He is also a member of the International Gothic Association and the Magic Lantern Society.