Cinematic Ghosts : Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era - Murray Leeder

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Cinematic Ghosts

Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era

By: Murray Leeder (Editor)

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Paperback | 10 September 2015 | Edition Number 1

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In 1896, Maxim Gorky named the cinema as 'the Kingdom of Shadows.' In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted and the ghostly. Cinematic Ghosts is the first collection devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms.
Cinematic Ghosts contains essays revisiting some classic ghost films within the genres of horror (The Haunting (1963)), romance (Portrait of Jennie (1948)), comedy (Beetlejuice (1988)) and the art film (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)), as well as essays dealing with a number of lesser-known films from around the world, from Sweden to China. Cinematic Ghosts traces the archetype of the cinematic ghost from the silent era until today, offering analyses from a range of historical, aesthetic and theoretical dimensions.

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There is much to interest readers and the book will (dare I say it) leave them in good spirits ... A thoughtful and entertaining addition to any film or religion studies collection, whether for personal or professional purposes, at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
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