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The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a
significant context for cinema's first years. The book takes up the
familiar notion of cinema as a "ghostly," "spectral" or "haunted"
medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the
history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical
research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the
skeletons of the danse macabre and the ghostly spaces of the mind,
it uncovers many lost and fascinating connections. The Modern
Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema locates film's spectral
affinities within a history stretching back to the beginning of
screen practice and forward to the digital era. In addition to
examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers
like Georges Melies and George Albert Smith, it also engages with
the representations of cinema's ghostly past in Guy Maddin's recent
online project Seances (2016). It is ideal for those interested in
the history of cinema, the study of the supernatural and the
pre-history of the horror film.
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