Cinematic Ghosts Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era

In 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.<i> Cinematic Ghosts</i> is the first collection devoted to this subject including fourteen new essays dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms.<br/><br/><i>Cinematic Ghosts</i> contains essays revisiting some classic ghost films within the genres of horror (<i>The Haunting</i> 1963) romance (<i>Portrait of Jennie</i> 1948) comedy (<i>Beetlejuice </i>1988) and the art film (<i>Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives</i> 2010) as well as essays dealing with a number of films from around the world from Sweden to China. <i>Cinematic Ghosts</i> traces the archetype of the cinematic ghost from the silent era until today offering analyses from a range of historical aesthetic and theoretical dimensions.