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Sight and Sound Presents The History of Horror Part 2: Ghosts

Sight and Sound Presents The History of Horror Part 2: Ghosts

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Drawing on extensive material from the Sight and Sound and Monthly Film Bulletin archives, Ghosts is the second in a major new series exploring the history of horror onscreen

 

 

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Ghosts takes us from the first apparitions in early cinema, through the comical and sad ghosts that tended to proliferate in the decades following, before we reach the truly chilling spectres that have abounded in cinema since the worldwide revival of gothic cinema in the late fifties.

It includes reviews of significant films such as The Innocents, The Woman in Black, Carnival of Souls, Poltergeist, Onibaba, The Orphanage, Sixth Sense, and Ring; plus numerous features and interviews with key directors such as Guillermo del Toro, David Lowery, Jack Clayton, Rose Glass and David Robert Mitchell. 

Contents:

Introduction

Spectres of the Past by Roger Clarke

Tellers of Tales by Lisa Kerrigan

A Message from the Other Side by Simon McCallum

Cine-Camera Ghost-Hunting and Buried Alive by Harry Price

Festive Spirits by Bryony Dixon

Chapter 1: Haunted Britain

This Spectred Isle (A Field in England) by Kim Newman

The Gospel of Rose Glass (Saint Maud) by Mike Williams

Look into the Dark (TV horror) by Jonathan Rigby

Endings: Dead of Night by Edward Parnell

Case Study: The Innocents

The Innocents by Penelope Houston

The Haunting of Deborah by Nathalie Morris

Endings: The Innocents by Christopher Frayling

Plus reviews of From Beyond the Grave, Ghostwatch, Saint Maud, The Woman in Black, Ghost Stories, Host, The Innocents, The Turning, The Haunting of Bly Manor

Chapter 2: Haunted America

Bring Back the Cat (The Curse of the Cat People) by Kim Newman

Spiralling Fear (The Haunting) by Brian Yuzna

The Cage of Reason (Sleepy Hollow) by Kim Newman

Tainted Love (It Follows) by Michael Blyth

Ghost Hunter (Crimson Peak) by Mar Diestro-Dópido

Enduring Love (A Ghost Story) by Philip Concannon

Case Study: The Shining

Dark Mirror: The Cinema of Stephen King by Roger Luckhurst

The Overlook Hotel by Paul Mayersberg

Resident Phantoms by Jonathan Romney

Plus reviews of Carnival of Souls, The Haunting (1963), Poltergeist, The Gate, Lady in White, Jacob’s Ladder, Candyman, The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, What Lies Beneath, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Sleepy Hollow, The Amityville Horror, 1408, The Innkeepers, It Follows, Crimson Peak, A Ghost Story, The Shining, Doctor Sleep

Chapter 3: Haunted World

Desperation and Desire (Don’t Look Now) by Leslie Dick

Work and Play in the House of Fiction (Céline and Julie Go Boating) by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Dread Again (The Others) by Nick James

The Nature of Death (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) by Frances Morgan

Case Study: Japanese Ghost Stories

Classical Virtues (Shindō Kaneto) by Alexander Jacoby

Spirit Levels (Dark Water) by Mark Kermode

Endings: Pulse by Matt Turner

Plus reviews of Kill, Baby… Kill!, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Don’t Look Now, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Possessed, The Others, The Devil’s Backbone, The Eye, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Orphanage, Under the Shadow, Onibaba, House, Ring, Dark Water, The Grudge

 

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SKU 10139784
Publisher(s) BFI
Editor(s) Mike Williams
Format Paperback
Original publication date December 2022
Number of pages 148 pages
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