The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema
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The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema by Murray Leeder
This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years. In addition to examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers like Georges Melies and George Albert Smith, it also engages with the representations of cinema's ghostly past in Guy Maddin's recent online project Seances (2016).
“The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema is a cornucopia of ideas, arguments and images both scrupulously well researched and highly readableThis original exploration of film history makes for one of the most pleasurable books I’ve read in 2017.” (Alan Price, The Magonia Blog, pelicanist.blogspot.de, April 05, 2019)
Murray Leeder teaches Film Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada, and holds a PhD from Carleton University. He is the author of Horror Film: A Critical Introduction (forthcoming) and Halloween (2014) and editor of Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era (2015).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781349844562 |
| ISBN 10 | 134984456X |
| Title | The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema |
| Author | Murray Leeder |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2019-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 209 |
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