Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion

by Richard J. Hand (Editor), Jay McRoy (Editor)

Overview

Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the present
Offers essays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contextsExtends the field of Gothic film by spanning diverse historical periods, international contexts and (sub)genresStructured into 3 sections on History, Traditions and AdaptationsProvides major new appraisals of key works alongside neglected topics
This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad ways that filmmakers mobilise Gothic conceits across multiple film genres and in conjunction with several significant film styles. In the process, the book contributes exciting new readings of canonical works of Gothic cinema as well as important new critical examinations of emerging horror subgenres.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474448079
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	03/03/2022
Series:	Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of numerous studies of popular horror culture He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and his interests include adaptation, translation, and interdisciplinarity in performance media (with a particular interest in historical forms of popular culture, especially horror) using critical and practical research methodologies.

Jay McRoy is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Parkside. He is the author of Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema (Rodopi, 2008), the editor of Japanese Horror Cinema (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2005), and the co-editor (with Richard J. Hand) of Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film (Manchester UniversityPress, 2007).

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction – Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy

Part I. Gothic Film History

1. Gothic Cinema During the Silent Era – James L. Neibaur 2. ‘So why shouldn’t I write of monsters?’: Defining Monstrosity in Universal’s Horror Films – Andy W. Smith 3. Film Noir and The Gothic – Jay McRoy 4. Transitional Gothic: Hammer’s Gothic Revival and New Horror – Adam Charles Hart 5. Gothic Cinema from the 1970s to Now – Xavier Aldana Reyes

Part II. Gothic Film Adaptations

6. Danny’s Endless Tricycle Ride: The Gothic and Adaptation – Richard J. Hand7. Jekyll and Hyde and Scopophilia – Martin Danahay 8. Gothic Parodies on Film and Personal Transformation – Laurence Raw 9. The Gothic Sensorium: Affect in Jan Švankmajer’s Poe films – Anna Powell 10. Dracula in Asian Cinema: Transnational Appropriation of a Cultural Symbol – Andrew Hock Soon Ng

Part III. Gothic Film Traditions

11. The Italian Gothic Film – Mikel Koven 12. Gothic Science Fiction – Geraint D’Arcy 13. American Gothic Westerns: Tales of Racial Slavery and Genocide – Josef Benson 14. This is America: Race, Gender and the Gothic in Get Out (2017) – Elaine Roth15. ‘Part of my soul did die when making this film’: Gothic Corporeality, Extreme Cinema and Hardcore Horror in the Twenty—First Century – Thomas Joseph Watson

What People are Saying About This

University of East Anglia Mark Jancovich

Hand and McRoy’s Gothic Film is a valuable contribution that covers an extremely ecletic range of films and the equally diverse body of scholarship about them. It not only manages to achieve this mammoth task but it does so while offering new ideas and insights in the process. This is a must-read volume for both those who are new to and those who are familiar with the topic. Terrifyingly good! Terrifyingly good!

Editorial Reviews

Hand and McRoy’s Gothic Film is a valuable contribution that covers an extremely ecletic range of films and the equally diverse body of scholarship about them. It not only manages to achieve this mammoth task but it does so while offering new ideas and insights in the process. This is a must—read volume for both those who are new to and those who are familiar with the topic. Terrifyingly good! Terrifyingly good!

Mark Jancovich