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The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema / / by Murray Leeder



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Autore: Leeder Murray Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema / / by Murray Leeder Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 209 p. 21 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
Disciplina: 791.4309
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures—History
Film genres
Motion pictures
Stage management
Motion picture acting
Film History
Genre
Film Theory
Technology and Stagecraft
Screen Performance
Film/TV Technology
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Nota di contenuto: 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. .
Sommario/riassunto: 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, the study of the supernatural and the pre-history of the horror film.
Titolo autorizzato: The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-58371-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910158965803321
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