| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Edinburgh companions to the gothic
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Edinburgh companions to the gothic.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. |
| Contents |
Part I. Gothic Film History; 1. Gothic Cinema During the Silent Era / James L. Neibaur; 2. 'So why shouldn't I write of monsters?': Defining Monstrosity in Universal's Horror Films / Andy W. Smith; 3. Film Noir and The Gothic / Jay McRoy; 4. Transitional Gothic: Hammer's Gothic Revival and New Horror / Adam Charles Hart 5. Gothic Cinema from the 1970s to Now / Xavier Aldana Reyes -- Part II. Gothic Film Adaptations; 6. Danny's Endless Tricycle Ride: The Gothic and Adaptation / Richard J. Hand; 7. Jekyll and Hyde and Scopophilia / Martin Danahay; 8. Gothic Parodies on Film and Personal Transformation / Laurence Raw; 9. The Gothic Sensorium: Affect in Jan Švankmajer's Poe films / Anna Powell; 10. Dracula in Asian Cinema: Transnational Appropriation of a Cultural Symbol / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- Part III. Gothic Film Traditions; 11. The Italian Gothic Film / Mikel Koven; 12. Gothic Science Fiction / Geraint D'Arcy; 13. American Gothic Westerns: Tales of Racial Slavery and Genocide / Josef Benson; 14. This is America: Race, Gender and the Gothic in Get Out (2017) / Elaine Roth; 15. 'Part of my soul did die when making this film': Gothic Corporeality, Extreme Cinema and Hardcore Horror in the Twenty-First Century / Thomas Joseph Watson |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Horror films -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Horror films |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Hand, Richard J., editor.
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McRoy, Jay, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gothic film. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 1474448046 9781474448048 (OCoLC)1117555121 |
| ISBN |
9781474448055 (electronic bk.) |
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1474448054 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474448062 (Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1474448062 |
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9781474448048 |
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1474448046 |
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