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Author : Lotte H. Eisner
Release : 1969
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 793/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Haunted Screen by : Lotte H. Eisner
Download or read book The Haunted Screen written by Lotte H. Eisner. This book was released on 1969. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book on expressionism in German motion pictures.
Author : Lee Kovacs
Release : 2005-11-07
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 055/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Haunted Screen by : Lee Kovacs
Download or read book The Haunted Screen written by Lee Kovacs. This book was released on 2005-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While ghosts often inhabit films and literature devoted to the horror genre, a group of literature-based films from the 1930s and 1940s presents more human and romantic apparitions. These films provide the underpinnings for many of the gentle supernatural films of the 1990s. Tracing the links between specters as diverse as Rex Harrison's Captain Gregg and Patrick Swazye's Sam Wheat, the text presents the evolution of the cinematic-literary ghost from classic Gothic to the psychological, sociological, and political ideologies of today. Included are analyses of the literary and film versions of classic ghost stories--Wuthering Heights, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Portrait of Jennie, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Uninvited, Liliom, and Our Town--as well as interpretations of modern films not based on literary works that show the influence of these predecessors--Ghost and Truly, Madly, Deeply. The text includes stills, a bibliography, and an index.
Author : Claire Cronin
Release : 2020-10-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 064/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blue Light of the Screen by : Claire Cronin
Download or read book Blue Light of the Screen written by Claire Cronin. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural. Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts. As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural. Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.
Author : J. M. Tyree
Release : 2024-10-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Haunted Screen by : J. M. Tyree
Download or read book The Haunted Screen written by J. M. Tyree. This book was released on 2024-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the eerie paranoia of horror film, J. M. Tyree's uncanny novella follows a couple transplanted to Germany. While in the throes of writing a book on Hitchcock’s Vertigo, a film scholar believes he’s being followed by a strange presence. Is this a supernatural force emanating from the prehistoric caves in the region, one captured in lost footage from horror movies filmed in the area in the 1920s? Or is he being stalked by his ex, a mentor, former lover, and brilliant but problematic critic who claims to have discovered the secret history of a supernatural camera used in films by Murnau and Hitchcock? When our scholar's wife disappears and the local police start investigating him, he attempts to unravel a mystery that takes him to Berlin, to Prague, and into the haunted heart of movies whose scenes appear to be recurring in the present. Moving between the double- life of professional networking and obsessive unease, The Haunted Screen blends the madness and obsession of academia with a dark, thrilling current of psychological mystery.
Author : Paul Meehan
Release : 2019-12-06
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 209/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Haunted House on Film by : Paul Meehan
Download or read book The Haunted House on Film written by Paul Meehan. This book was released on 2019-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film. The haunted house transcends genre, appearing in mysteries, gothic romances, comedies and horror films. This book is the first comprehensive historical and critical study of themes surrounding haunted houses in film. Covering more than 100 films, it spans from the Mystery House thrillers of the silent era to the high-tech, big budget productions of the 21st Century. Included are the works of such acclaimed directors as D.W. Griffith, Robert Wise, Mario Bava, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro. The book also covers the real-life "haunted house" phenomenon and movies based on paranormal case files, including those featured in films like the Conjuring series.
