Fairytale and gothic horror : uncanny transformations in film /
This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema. Identifying long-held traditions that have inspired this topical phenomenon, the book features close analysis of classical through to contemporary films. It begins by tracing fairyta...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fairytale roots and transformations
- 3. Gothic transgression, horror and film
- 4. Rebecca returns: death and renewal beyond the door
- 5. Encountering the werewolf--confronting the self: on and off the path to The Company of Wolves
- 6. The horror in Pan's Labyrinth: beneath the rhetoric of hope and fear
- 7. Afterword: uncanny transformations in film
- Index.