List of Figures

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Figures viii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I GOTHIC FILM HISTORY
7. 1. Gothic Cinema during the Silent Era 11
8. 2. ‘So why shouldn’t I write of monsters?’: Defining Monstrosity in Universal’s Horror Films 21
9. 3. Film Noir and the Gothic 37
10. 4. Transitional Gothic: Hammer’s Gothic Revival and New Horror 58
11. 5. Gothic Cinema from the 1970s to Now 77
12. PART II GOTHIC FILM ADAPTATIONS
13. 6. Danny’s Endless Tricycle Ride: The Gothic and Adaptation 89
14. 7. Jekyll and Hyde and Scopophilia 101
15. 8. Gothic Parodies on Film and Personal Transformation 112
16. 9. The Gothic Sensorium: Affect in Jan Švankmajer’s Poe Films 123
17. 10. Dracula in Asian Cinema: Transnational Appropriation of a Cultural Symbol 136
18. PART III GOTHIC FILM TRADITIONS
19. 11. The Italian Gothic Film 155
20. 12. Gothic Science Fiction 170
21. 13. American Gothic Westerns: Tales of Racial Slavery and Genocide 194
22. 14. This Is America: Race, Gender and the Gothic in Get Out (2017) 206
23. 15. ‘Part of my soul did die when making this film’: Gothic Corporeality, Extreme Cinema and Hardcore Horror in the Twenty-First Century 218
24. Filmography and Other Media 233
25. Notes on Contributors 237
26. Index 241