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Gothic Film
An Edinburgh Companion
Edited by Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy
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Book Presentation:
Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the present
• Offers essays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contexts
• Extends the field of Gothic film by spanning diverse historical periods, international contexts and (sub)genres
• Structured into 3 sections on History, Traditions and Adaptations
• Provides 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.
About the authors:
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 University Press, 2005), and the co-editor (with Richard J. Hand) of Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film (Manchester University Press, 2007).
Press 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, University of East Anglia
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
> From the same authors:
Monstrous Adaptations (2007)
Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film
Dir. Richard Hand and Jay McRoy
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Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror (2024)
Adaptations and Televisuality
The Blaxploitation Horror Film (2023)
Adaptation, Appropriation and the Gothic
Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand (2022)
Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television
Dir. Jessica Gildersleeve and Kate Cantrell
South Asian Gothic (2021)
Haunted cultures, histories and media
Dir. Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas
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