Afterword: Haunted Viewers / Jeffrey Sconce. 15. Ghosts of Pre-Cinema and Silent Cinema: 1. Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films and Photography's Uncanny / Tom Gunning; 2. "Visualizing the Phantoms of the Imagination": Projecting Haunted Minds / Murray Leeder; 3. Specters of the Mind: Ghosts, Illusion, and Exposure in Paul Leni's The Cat and the Canary / Simone Natale; 4. Supernatural Speech: Silent Cinema's Stake in Visualizing the Impossible / Robert Alford -- Part Two. Cinematic Ghosts from the 1940s through the 1980s: 5. Bad Sync: Spectral Sound and Retro-effects in Portrait of Jennie / ReneĢ Thoreau Bruckner; 6. "Antique Chiller": Quality, Pretention and History in the Critical Reception of The Innocents and The Haunting / Mark Jancovich; 7. Shadows of Shadows: The Undead in Ingmar Bergman's Cinema / Maurizio Cinquegrani; 8. Locating the Spectre in Dan Curtis's Burnt Offerings / Dara Downey; 9. The Bawdy Body in Two Comedy Ghost Films: Topper and Beetlejuice / Katherine A. Fowkes -- Part Three. Millennial Ghosts: 10. "I See Dead People": Visualizing Ghosts in the Horror Film Before the Arrival of CGI / Steffen Hantke; 11. Spectral Remainders and Transcultural Hauntings: (Re)iterations of the Onryo in Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema / Jay McRoy; 12. Painted Skin: Romance with the Ghostly Femme Fatale in Contemporary Chinese Cinema / Li Zeng; 13. "It's Not the House that's Haunted": Demons, Debt and the Family in Peril in Recent Horror Cinema / Bernice M. Murphy; 14. Glitch Gothic / Marc Olivier; 15. Showing the Unknown: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- Afterword: Haunted Viewers / Jeffrey Sconce.
Summary:
"A collection of essays that explores the various roles ghosts have played in motion pictures, spanning a range of time periods, genres and nations"-- Provided by publisher.
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