Gothic cinema
Aldana Reyes, Xavier2019
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Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first 'trick' films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton. But what is Gothic cinema? Is the iconography of the Gothic film equivalent to that of the horror genre? Are the literary origins of the Gothic what solidified its aesthetics? This book covers topics such as the chiaroscuro experiments of early German cinema, the monster cinema of the 1930s, the explained supernatural in the old dark house mystery films of the 1920s and the Female Gothics of the 1940s, the use of colour photography in the period Gothics of the late 1950s, the European exploitation booms of the 1960s and 1970s, and the animated films and Gothic superheroes that dominate present times.
Main title:
Gothic cinema / Xavier Aldana Reyes.
Author:
Aldana Reyes, Xavier, author
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2019.
Collation:
246 pages : illustrations (black and white).
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781138227569 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2275337