The Haunted Screen

Ghosts in Literature and Film

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by Lee Kovacs

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Horror

Keywords

horror, ghosts

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

McFarland & Co

1st publishing

1999

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

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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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Lee Kovacs is an independent scholar and writer who lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Press Reviews:
"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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