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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 Explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. 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 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
