The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema by Murray Leeder

The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema

Murray Leeder

209 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

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This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a "ghostly," "spectral" or "haunted" medium and asks what made such association possible. Exa...

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