Cinematic ghosts : haunting and spectrality from silent cinema to the digital era / edited by Murray Leeder.
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TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2015Description: 320 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628922134 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Ghosts in motion pictures | Supernatural in motion pictures | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'3675 Summary: In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema 'the Kingdom of Shadows.' In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted and the ghostly. This collection is devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms.
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In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema 'the Kingdom of Shadows.' In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted and the ghostly. This collection is devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms.
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