TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hand,Richard J.
AU  - Aldana Reyes,Xavier
AU  - Benson,Josef
AU  - Danahay,Martin
AU  - D’Arcy,Geraint
AU  - Hand,Richard J.
AU  - Hart,Adam Charles
AU  - Hock Soon Ng,Andrew
AU  - Koven,Mikel J.
AU  - McRoy,Jay
AU  - Neibaur,James L.
AU  - Powell,Anna
AU  - Raw,Laurence
AU  - Roth,Elaine
AU  - Smith,Andy W.
AU  - Watson,Thomas Joseph
TI  - Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion 
T2  - Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
SN  - 9781474448048
AV  - PN1995.9.H6 .G684 2020eb
U1  - 791.436164 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Horror films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Figures --; Introduction --; PART I GOTHIC FILM HISTORY --; 1. Gothic Cinema during the Silent Era --; 2. ‘So why shouldn’t I write of monsters?’: Defining Monstrosity in Universal’s Horror Films --; 3. Film Noir and the Gothic --; 4. Transitional Gothic: Hammer’s Gothic Revival and New Horror --; 5. Gothic Cinema from the 1970s to Now --; PART II GOTHIC FILM ADAPTATIONS --; 6. Danny’s Endless Tricycle Ride: The Gothic and Adaptation --; 7. Jekyll and Hyde and Scopophilia --; 8. Gothic Parodies on Film and Personal Transformation --; 9. The Gothic Sensorium: Affect in Jan Švankmajer’s Poe Films --; 10. Dracula in Asian Cinema: Transnational Appropriation of a Cultural Symbol --; PART III GOTHIC FILM TRADITIONS --; 11. The Italian Gothic Film --; 12. Gothic Science Fiction --; 13. American Gothic Westerns: Tales of Racial Slavery and Genocide --; 14. This Is America: Race, Gender and the Gothic in Get Out (2017) --; 15. ‘Part of my soul did die when making this film’: Gothic Corporeality, Extreme Cinema and Hardcore Horror in the Twenty-First Century --; Filmography and Other Media --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the presentOffers essays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contextsExtends the field of Gothic film by spanning diverse historical periods, international contexts and (sub)genresStructured into 3 sections on History, Traditions and AdaptationsProvides major new appraisals of key works alongside neglected topicsThis anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad ways that filmmakers mobilise Gothic conceits across multiple film genres and in conjunction with several significant film styles. In the process, the book contributes exciting new readings of canonical works of Gothic cinema as well as important new critical examinations of emerging horror subgenres
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474448055
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ER  -