Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost both shapes, and is shaped by, media.
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- Montreal, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- POETICS OF THE PARANORMAL 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- CONTENTS 6
- Figures 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- 1 | A Ghost Story 14
- 2 | The Diabolical Image: Photography, Cinema, and Haunted Celluloid 42
- 3 | Televisual Ghosts and Paranormal Investigation 94
- 4 | Tape: Videographic Ruin and the Lure of the Tangible 129
- 5 | Hyperlinked Hauntings: Digital Horror and Networked Spectrality 152
- 6 | Séance Cinema 190
- Notes 198
- Bibliography 218
- Index 230
