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

Jones, David J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 070832407X ISBN 13 : 9780708324073

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2011

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book reveals some of the exciting inter-relations between Gothic Horror literature, film and magic lantern shows. It is an innovative work, providing new insights into how Gothic Horror as a whole started, with the genesis of the Frankenstein films, and encourages the reader to think of the relations between such books and films as one vibrant set of energies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 070832407X
• ISBN 13: 9780708324073
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240