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Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the present This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad ways that filmmakers mobilise Gothic conceits across multiple film genres and in conjunction with several significant film styles. In the process, the book contributes exciting new readings of canonical works of Gothic cinema as well as important new critical examinations of emerging horror subgenres. Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia. Jay McRoy is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction - Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy
Part I. Gothic Film History1. 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 Adaptations6. 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 svankmajer'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
About the author
Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of numerous studies of popular horror culture He is the founding co-editor of the
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and his interests include adaptation, translation, and interdisciplinarity in performance media (with a particular interest in historical forms of popular culture, especially horror) using critical and practical research methodologies. Jay McRoy is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside. He is the author of
Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema (Rodopi, 2008), the editor of
Japanese Horror Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), and the co-editor (with Richard J. Hand) of
Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film (Manchester University Press, 2007).
Summary
This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations.
