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

• Autore: Jones David J
• Pubblicazione: Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 pages)
• Disciplina: 700.903
• Soggetto topico: Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gothic machine
• ISBN: 1-299-20099-0; 0-7083-2408-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828018103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gothic literary studies.