Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture 1670-1910
Distributed for University of Wales Press
240 pages
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5 halftones
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2011
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Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
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
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
Review Quotes
Alan Halsey | Stride Magazine
“Gothic Machine should be regarded as essential reading for a long time to come.”
Xavier Aldana Reyes, University of Lancaster | Gothic Imagination
“Aside from being a very thorough introduction to the role of visual technology and optical illusion up until the release of the first Frankenstein adaptation, Jones’s book manages to achieve what only good academic volumes do: it creates an awareness of the pressing need to consider what had, until now, only been invoked as part of a niche area of study.”
Magic Lantern Gazette
“This well-researched and well-written book makes a major contribution to the history of the magic lantern and its relationship to literature. . . . Gothic Machine combines the author’s first-hand familiarity with the magic lanterns and phantasmagoria and a deep knowledge of gothic literature to describe the interrelationships of visual media and literature from the late 1600s to the twentieth century. . . . It is impossible in a short summary to do justice to the richness of the scholarship in this book. . . . The depth of scholarship . . . makes it a ‘must read’ for anyone with serious interest in the history and culture of the magic lantern in relation to literature.”
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