03627nam 22006735 450 991015896580332120251030103740.09781137583710113758371110.1057/978-1-137-58371-0(CKB)3710000001018807(DE-He213)978-1-137-58371-0(MiAaPQ)EBC4785207(Perlego)3505642(EXLCZ)99371000000101880720170110d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema /by Murray Leeder1st ed. 2017.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XII, 209 p. 21 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 9781137583703 1137583703 1.Introduction -- 2. The Haunting of Film Theory -- 3. Light and Lies: Screen Practice and (Super-) Natural Magic -- 4. The Strange Case of George Albert Smith: Mesmerism, Psychical Research and Cinema -- 5. Aesthetics of Co-Registration: Spirit Photography, X-Rays and Cinema -- 6. Méliès’s Skeleton: Gender, Cinema’s Danse Macabre and the Erotics of Bone -- 7. Living Pictures at Will: Projecting Haunted Minds -- 8. Conclusion: Lost Worlds, Ghost Worlds. .This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” or “haunted” medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the skeletons of the danse macabre and the ghostly spaces of the mind, it uncovers many lost and fascinating connections. The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema locates film’s spectral affinities within a history stretching back to the beginning of screen practice and forward to the digital era. In addition to examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers like Georges Méliès and George Albert Smith, it also engages with the representations of cinema’s ghostly past in Guy Maddin’s recent online project Seances (2016). It is ideal for those interested in the history of cinema, thestudy of the supernatural and the pre-history of the horror film.Motion picturesHistoryFilm genresMotion picturesStage managementMotion picture actingTelevision broadcastingFilm and TV HistoryGenre StudiesFilm TheoryTechnology and StagecraftScreen PerformanceFilm and Television StudiesMotion picturesHistory.Film genres.Motion pictures.Stage management.Motion picture acting.Television broadcasting.Film and TV History.Genre Studies.Film Theory.Technology and Stagecraft.Screen Performance.Film and Television Studies.791.4309Leeder Murrayauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut897750BOOK9910158965803321The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema2005807UNINA