Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects

Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Herausgeber: Botting, Fred; Spooner, Catherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts and technology in gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributors discuss a range of material, including print, still photography, cinema, audio recordings and stage performance, positing that the gothic has always been connected to, and demands, new technologies. The book argues that emerging media technologies from the phantasmagoria and magic lantern to the hand-held video camera and the personal computer both shape gothic subjects and in turn become gothicised. In a collection of essays that ranges from the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker and Richard Marsh to the music of Tom Waits, world horror cinema and the TV series Doctor Who, the book finds fresh and innovative contexts for the study of gothic. In exploring disturbances in text, image, performance and musical form, it reveals the important relationship between gothic and progress and demonstrates that, ultimately, the medium is the monster. Combining essays by well-established and emerging scholars, this volume will appeal to academics and students researching both gothic literature and culture, and the cultural impact of new technologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089770
• ISBN-10: 0719089778
• Artikelnr.: 42372375

Autorenporträt

Fred Botting is Professor in English at Kingston University Catherine Spooner is Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner Part I: Between text and image 2: Gothic wars
media's lust: on the cultural afterlife of the war dead
Elisabeth Bronfen 3: Kingdom of shadows: fin
de
siècle gothic and early cinema
Paul Foster 4: 'A mirror with a memory': the development of the negative in Victorian gothic
Gregory Brophy 5: Modern phantasmagorias and visual culture in Wilkie Collins's Basil
Laurence Talairach
Vielmas Part II: Sounding spectres 6: 'The earth died screaming': Tom Waits's Bone Machine
Steen Christiansen 7: Ghosts of the Gristleized
Dean Lockwood Part III: Moving media 8: 'Nineteenth century (up
to
date) with a vengeance': vampirism, Victorianism and collage in Guy Maddin's Dracula
Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Dorothea Schuller 9: Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Neil Burger's The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser's short stories
Jean
François Baillon 10: Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re
inventing the gothic personae in bizarre magic
Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan 11: Body genres, night vision and the female monster: REC and the contemporary horror film
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 12: You have been saved: digital memory and salvation
Stephen Curtis Index