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Informationen zum Autor Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. Catherine Spooner is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Explores the intersection of monsters! ghosts! representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Fred Botting and Catherine SpoonerPart I: Between text and image2: Gothic wars - media's lust: on the cultural afterlife of the war dead - Elisabeth Bronfen3: Kingdom of shadows: fin-de-siècle gothic and early cinema - Paul Foster4: 'A mirror with a memory': the development of the negative in Victorian gothic - Gregory Brophy5: Modern phantasmagorias and visual culture in Wilkie Collins's Basil - Laurence Talairach-VielmasPart II: Sounding spectres6: 'The earth died screaming': Tom Waits's Bone Machine - Steen Christiansen7: Ghosts of the Gristleized - Dean LockwoodPart III: Moving media8: 'Nineteenth century (up-to-date) with a vengeance': vampirism, Victorianism and collage in Guy Maddin's Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary - Dorothea Schuller9: Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Neil Burger's The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser's short stories - Jean-François Baillon10: Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the gothic personae in bizarre magic - Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan11: Body genres, night vision and the female monster: REC and the contemporary horror film - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet12: You have been saved: digital memory and salvation - Stephen CurtisIndex...
