{"product_id":"cinematic-ghosts-haunting-and-spectrality-from-silent-cinema-to-the-digital-era-9781628922134","title":"Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Murray Leeder\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003ci\u003e Cinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e contains essays revisiting some classic ghost films within the genres of horror (\u003ci\u003eThe Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e, 1963), romance (\u003ci\u003ePortrait of Jennie\u003c\/i\u003e, 1948), comedy (\u003ci\u003eBeetlejuice, \u003c\/i\u003e1988) and the art film (\u003ci\u003eUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010), as well as essays dealing with a number of films from around the world, from Sweden to China. \u003ci\u003eCinematic Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e traces the archetype of the cinematic ghost from the silent era until today, offering analyses from a range of historical, aesthetic and theoretical dimensions.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082883489943,"sku":"9781628922134","price":3852.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781628922134.webp?v=1767142563","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cinematic-ghosts-haunting-and-spectrality-from-silent-cinema-to-the-digital-era-9781628922134","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}