Gothic Machine: Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture 1670-1910 (Gothic Literary Studies)

In__Gothic Machine__, David Jones reveals the intriguing relationships between Gothic literature, film, and the media existing prior to the advent of the cinema. Jones tracks the Gothic horror genre from its earliest days as literature, through phantasmagoria and the magic lantern shows of the Victorian period, to the early films of the 1890s, and finally to the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s__Frankenstein__in 1910. Among the numerous personalities that appear in Jones’s study are the Marquis de Sade; Étienne-Gaspard Robert, or “Robertson”; Friedrich Schiller, and the Lumière brothers. This Book Is A Groundbreaking Exploration Of Relations Between Gothic Literature, Pre-cinematic Media Such As Magic Lanterns, Phantasmagoria And Dioramas And The First Films, In The Period 1670-1910. Starting With The Earliest Projections Of Horror Images, Continuing Through The Development Of Gothic Fiction And Drama And Closing With The First Frankenstein Film, This Study Is A Fascinating And Pioneering Evaluation Of Relations Between These Different Media. Among The Mysteries Broached En Route Are The Reasons Why Our First View Of Dracula On English Soil Is Described By Bram Stoker As A 'diorama', And Why The Doyen Of Tales Of Terror, Sheridan Le Fanu, Is Revealed To Be A Literary Magic Lanternist -- As Is Robert Louis Stevenson. Memento Mori, Griendel And The Forerunners, Schropfer And Schiller : German Popular Visual Culture 1670-1800. Friedrich Schiller's Der Geisterseher/the Ghost-seer, Sturm Und Drang And Magic-lantern Shows -- Matthew Lewis's The Monk, The Marquis De Sade And Inter-medial Influence : The Publishers, The Readership, Visual Spectacle And The Staging Of The Gothic 1790-1830 -- Etienne-gaspard Robertson's Gothic Fantasmagorie And E.t.a. Hoffmann -- Gothic Renewal And Bifurcation : Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer-lytton's The Strange Tale, Charles Dickens, Pepper's Ghost And Etienne-jules Marey. The Daguerreotype And Diablerie In French Visual Media -- 'in Or Around The Winter, 1895' : From The Prelude To Cinema Proper. French Gothic Symbolism, Villiers De L'isle-adam, J.-k. Huysmans, The Feeries Of Georges Melies And Alice Guy Blache's Esmeralda -- 'another Kind Of Showman' : Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Robert Paul, Albert Smith And Film's First Frankenstein. Anglo-american Gothic In The Age Of The First Films 1895-1910 -- Conclusions : French Extremity. David J. Jones. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [219]-230) And Index. In Gothic Machine , David Jones reveals the intriguing relationships between Gothic literature, film, and the media existing prior to the advent of the cinema. Jones tracks the Gothic horror genre from its earliest days as literature, through phantasmagoria and the magic lantern shows of the Victorian period, to the early films of the 1890s, and finally to the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1910. Among the numerous personalities that appear in Jones’s study are the Marquis de Sade; Étienne-Gaspard Robert, or “Robertson”; Friedrich Schiller, and the Lumière brothers. Annotation This book provides new insights into how Gothic Horror as a whole started, and encourages the reader to think of the relations between such books and films as one vibrant set of energies