Gothic Machine: Textualities, Pre-Cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910 - Rilegato

Jones, David J.

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ISBN 10: 070832407X ISBN 13: 9780708324073

Casa editrice: Univ of Wales Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In Gothic Machine, David Jones reveals the intriguing relationships between Gothic literature, film, and the media existing prior to the advent of the cinema. Jones tracks the Gothic horror genre from its earliest days as literature, through phantasmagoria and the magic lantern shows of the Victorian period, to the early films of the 1890s, and finally to the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein in 1910. Among the numerous personalities that appear in Jones’s study are the Marquis de Sade; Étienne-Gaspard Robert, or “Robertson”; Friedrich Schiller, and the Lumière brothers.

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Recensione:

Gothic Machine is an interesting piece of scholarship precisely because it refuses that type of chronological and even sequential structure. Instead, it prefers to relish on the interconnections between different forms of media and how their languages may coalesce and expand our meaning and understanding of them. Aside from being a very thorough introduction to the role of visual technology and optical illusion up until the release of the first Frankenstein adaptation (J. Searle Dawley, 1910), Jones book manages to achieve what only good academic volumes do: it creates an awareness of the pressing need to consider what had, until now, only been invoked as part of a niche area of study. --Xavier Aldana Reyes, University of Lancaster

In 2011, David J. Jones published the very informative Gothic Machine: Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media, and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910. This work remains a significant advance in Gothic and cultural studies,... Jones thoroughly knows and has revived lantern technology himself, and in Gothic Machine he stakes out rediscovered territory of his own and reveals many little-known facts in the process. --Review 19, Jerrold E. Hogle

L'autore:

David Jones is lecturer of Victorian, modernist, and postcolonial literatures at the Open University.

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• Editore: Univ of Wales Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 070832407X
• ISBN 13: 9780708324073
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240