The Haunted Screen

Ghosts in Literature and Film

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de Lee Kovacs

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Horror

Mots Clés

horror, ghosts

Année d'édition

2006

Editeur

McFarland & Co

1ere édition

1999

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • 191 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7864-2605-5
978-0-7864-2605-8

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Description de l'ouvrage:
While ghosts often inhabit films and literature devoted to the horror genre, a group of literature-based films from the 1930s and 1940s presents more human and romantic apparitions. These films provide the underpinnings for many of the gentle supernatural films of the 1990s. Tracing the links between specters as diverse as Rex Harrison’s Captain Gregg and Patrick Swayze’s Sam Wheat, the text presents the evolution of the cinematic-literary ghost from classic Gothic to the psychological, sociological, and political ideologies of today. Included are analyses of the literary and film versions of classic ghost stories—Wuthering Heights, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Portrait of Jennie, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Uninvited, Liliom, and Our Town—as well as interpretations of modern films not based on literary works that show the influence of these predecessors—Ghost and Truly, Madly, Deeply. The text includes stills, a bibliography, and an index.

À propos de l'auteur :
Lee Kovacs is an independent scholar and writer who lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Revue de Presse:
"recommended"—Interzone
"crisply written…beautifully illustrated…engaging narrative that will entertain and challenge"—SFRA Review
"[an] eloquently written analysis of ‘the romantic ghost film’"—Video Watchdog

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