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Gothic Cinema (Paperback)
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Gothic Cinema (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks
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Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic
mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional
origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first 'trick' films to its
postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton. But
what is Gothic cinema? Is the iconography of the Gothic film
equivalent to that of the horror genre? Are the literary origins of
the Gothic what solidified its aesthetics? And exactly what
cultural roles does the Gothic continue to perform for us today?
Gothic Cinema covers topics such as the chiaroscuro experiments of
early German cinema, the monster cinema of the 1930s, the explained
supernatural of the old dark house mystery films of the 1920s and
the Female Gothics of the 1940s, the use of vibrant colours in the
period Gothics of the late 1950s, the European exploitation booms
of the 1960s and 1970s, and the animated films and Gothic
superheroes that dominate present times. Throughout, Aldana Reyes
makes a strong case for a medium-specific and more intuitive
approach to the Gothic on screen that acknowledges its position
within wider film industries with their own sets of financial
pressures and priorities. This groundbreaking book is the first
thorough chronological, transhistorical and transnational study of
Gothic cinema, ideal for both new and seasoned scholars, as well as
those with a wider interest in the Gothic.
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