Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture 1670-1910
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List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Memento Mori, Griendel and the Forerunners, Schröpfer and Schiller: German Popular Visual Culture 1670–1800. Friedrich Schiller’s Der Geisterseher/The Ghost-Seer, Sturm und Drang and Magic-Lantern Shows
2. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, the Marquis de Sade and Inter-Medial Influence: The Publishers, Readership, Visual Spectacle and the Staging of the Gothic 1790–1830
3. Etienne-Gaspard Robertson’s Gothic Fantasmagorie and E. T. A. Hoffmann
4. Gothic Renewal and Bifurcation: Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Strange Tales, Charles Dickens, Pepper’s Ghost and Etienne-Jules Marey. The Daguerreotype and Diablerie in French Visual Media
5. ‘In or around the Winter, 1895”: From the Prelude to Cinema Proper. French Gothic Symbolism, Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, J.-K. Huysmans, the féeries of Georges Méliès and Alice Guy Blanché’s Esmeralda
6. ‘Another Kind of Showman’: Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Robert Paul, Albert Smith and Film’s First Frankenstein. Anglo-American Gothic in the Age of the First Films 1895–1910
7. Conclusion: French Extremity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Gothic Machine should be regarded as essential reading for a long time to come.”
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