Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-Cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2011
240 pages
978-0-7083-2408-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides new insights into how Gothic Horror as a whole started, and encourages the reader to think of the relations between such books and films as one vibrant set of energies.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
2,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2408-0 (9780708324080)
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David J. Jones
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
Book
06/2011
University of Wales Press
€84.50
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Memento Mori, Griendel and the Forerunners, Schröpferand Schiller: German Popular Visual Culture 1670-1800. Friedrich Schiller's Der Geisterseher/The Ghost-Seer, Sturm und Drang and Magic-Lantern Shows
- Matthew Lewis's The Monk, the Marquis de Sade andInter-Medial Influence: The Publishers, Readership,Visual Spectacle and the Staging of Gothic 1790-1830
- Etienne-Gaspard Robertson's Gothic Fantasmagorie and E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Gothic Renewal and Bifurcation: Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Strange Tale, Charles Dickens, Pepper's Ghost and Etienne-Jules Marey.The Daguerreotype and Diablerie in French Visual Media
- 'In or around the Winter, 1895': From the Prelude toCinema Proper. French Gothic Symbolism, Villiersde L'Isle-Adam, J.-K. Huysmans, the féeries of Georges Méliès and Alice Guy Blaché's Esmeralda
- 'Another Kind of Showman': Robert Louis Stevenson,Bram Stoker, Robert Paul, Albert Smith and Film's First Frankenstein. Anglo-American Gothic in the Age of the First Films 1895-1910
- Conclusion: French Extremity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
