BackGothic N.E.W.S.
Volume 2, Studies in classic and contemporary gothic cinema (book in English)
Edited by Gilles Menegaldo
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Genre > Fantasy
- fantasy, Horror
- Publishing Date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Michel Houdiard
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 236 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15 x 24 cm) - ISBN
- 978-2-35692-051-5
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Book Presentation:
Using an acronym as the theme for the 8th biennial conference in Aix en Provence meant to interrogate Gothic as a crossroads of territories first - a proper theme for a family reunion, that of scholars in gothic studies across the world. But the overlap between that acronym and the signifier « news » was predicated on the metaphorical paradigm of time: news from gothic studies here and there. Delegates from the four cardinal points exchanged views and news on a daily basis in a week-time conference. The present volume - the second of the pair successively devoted to literature and cinema - gathers most of the papers given at the conference and includes also two texts by prominent American film scholars. Fields of investigation concern German expressionism, Hollywood Female gothic, the Jekyll and Hyde myth, British Horror films of the sixties, Southern gothic on film, the grotesque, Asian Horror films, postmodern vampires etc. Some articles focus on prominent diretors such as Rouben Mamoulian, Jean Renoir, Roger Corman (the Poe cycle), Roman Polanski, John Boorman, George Romero, Alejandro Amenabar. The use of gothic conventions in contemporary cinema is examined through two very different case studies (The Quay Brothers, Mathieu Kassowitz). The role of gothic tropes in the classic television series, The Twilight Zone is assessed while the impact of digital technology is also explored (The Matrix).
> From the same author:
Le Studio Hammer (2023)
Laboratoire de l’horreur moderne ?
Dir. Mélanie Boissonneau, Gilles Menegaldo and Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
Le goût du noir dans la fiction policière contemporaine (2021)
Littérature et art de l'image
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo and Maryse Petit
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Spectres de Poe (2021)
dans la littérature et dans les arts
Dir. Jocelyn Dupont and Gilles Menegaldo
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Tim Burton (2018)
A Cinema of Transformations
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo
(in English)
Subject: Director > Tim Burton
King Vidor, Odyssée des inconnus (2014)
Dir. Jean-Marie Lecomte and Gilles Menegaldo
Subject: Director > King Vidor
Europe et Hollywood à l'écran (2012)
Regards croisés
by Gilles Menegaldo
(in French and English)
Subject: Sociology
Eclats du noir (2007)
Généricité et hybridation dans la littérature et le cinéma du monde anglophone
Dir. Max Duperray, Gilles Menegaldo and Dominique Sipière
Cinéma et histoire (2007)
Cinema and history
Dir. Melvyn Stokes and Gilles Menegaldo
(in French and English)
Subject: Genre > History films
Les Nouvelles Formes de la science-fiction (2006)
Colloque de Cerisy 2003
Dir. Roger Bozzetto and Gilles Menegaldo
Subject: Genre > Science fiction
Jacques Tourneur, une esthétique du trouble (2006)
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo
Subject: Director > Jacques Tourneur
Dracula (2005)
L'œuvre de Bram Stoker et le film de Francis F. Coppola
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo and Dominique Sipière
Crises de la représentation dans le cinéma américain (2003)
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo
Subject: Countries > United States
A Streetcar Named Desire (2003)
Tennessee Williams (1947) - Elia Kazan (1951)
Subject: One Film > A Streetcar Named Desire
Le crime organisé à la ville et à l'écran (2002)
(1929-1951)
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo
Subject: Genre > Detective movie
Les récits policiers au cinéma (1999)
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo and Dominique Sipière
Subject: Genre > Detective movie
Le Cinéma et ses objets (1997)
(Objects in Film)
by Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard, Gilles Menegaldo and Zeenat Saleh
Subject: Theory
L'expression du sentiment au cinéma (1996)
Dir. Gilles Menegaldo and Claude Murcia
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