Book contents
- 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
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020
- 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
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- Gothic FilmAn Edinburgh Companion, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020