Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE vi
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. 1 ‘BUT THE FACTS OF LIFE PERSIST’: MAGIC, EXPERIMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTING THE WORLD OTHERWISE 22
7. 2 ‘AND WHAT HAS ALL THIS TO DO WITH EXPERIMENTAL WRITING?’: WORDS AND GHOSTS 44
8. 3 A ‘SUBTLE METAMORPHOSIS’: SOUND, MIMESIS AND TRANSFORMATION 75
9. 4 ‘HERE IS WHERE THE MAGIC IS’: TELEPATHY AND EXPERIMENT IN FILM 103
10. 5 ‘DISNEY AGAINST THE METAPHYSICALS’: EISENSTEIN, POUND, ECTOPLASM AND THE POLITICS OF ANIMATION 135
11. BIBLIOGRAPHY 168
12. INDEX 184