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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828018103321

Autore

Jones David J

Titolo

Gothic machine : textualities, pre-cinematic media and film in popular visual culture, 1670-1910 / / David J. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011

ISBN

1-299-20099-0

0-7083-2408-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Collana

Gothic library studies

Disciplina

700.903

Soggetti

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Almost everyone loves a good horror film but how did they originate? Audiences thrilled and shuddered at ghosts and monsters projected on screens all over Europe for centuries before film was born. This pioneering book traces the origins and development of the magic lantern shows of fear and reveals their close relation to the great



upsurge in Gothic writing, so popular with readers today.