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Author:   David Annwn Jones
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9781526101228

ISBN 10:   152610122
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   04 January 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 1.1 Gothic and Gothic Revival architecture 1.2 Graveyards, crypts and mausolea 1.3 Ruins 1.4 Follies and gardens 1.5 Décor, domestic furniture and uncanny household items 1.6 Theatre and stage 1.7 Masquerade, Halloween and Gothic as pageant and immersive spectacle 1.8 Dance and mime Chapter 2 2.1 Early painting to the eighteenth century 2.2 Painting: Goya to Giger and after 2.3 Engravings: icons of ancestral fear 2.4 The macabre graphic art of the Blue books and Penny Dreadfuls 2.5 Revivified and spectral portraits: Otranto’s yawning picture to M.R. James’s ‘The Mezzotint’ 2.6 Uncanny signs and posters Chapter 3 3.1 Sculptors and statuary 3.2 Wax simulacra 3.3 Dolls, effigies, mommets and poppets 3.4 Moving statues and automata 3.5 Tableaux vivants and poses plastiques 3.6 Cabinets of curiosity 3.7 Postmodern Gothic sculptures and figurines 3.8 Taxidermy Chapter 4 4.1 Ghost machines: the Satanic Eidophusikon and peepshows 4.2 Phantasmagoria and magic lanterns: E-A Roberston’s lantern-of-fear 4.3 Stereoscope ‘Diableries’ 4.4 ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ and the domestic lantern horror show 4.5 Eerie sight machines, zoetropes and the whirling witches of Plateau’s Phenakistoscope 4.6 Gothic Kinetoscopes to early American horror film 4.7 Gothic films, from silents to electronic movie making 4.8 Gothic TV Chapter 5 5.1 Gothic comics, graphic novels and icons 5.2 Silhouettes, Ombres Chinoises and shadowgraphs 5.3 Damnable lithographs: Louis Boulanger’s Satanic ‘La Ronde de Sabbat’and the dark barbarism of the ‘lapidary art’ 5.4 Dressed, adorned and altered prints and books 5.5 Leporellos, moving books and monstrous concertina texts 5.6 Gothic calendars Chapter 6 6.1 The dark hold of Daguerreotypes and early photography 6.2 Mourning and spirit photographs 6.3 Gothic collage, photocollage and shadow boxes 6.4 Haunts, great houses, cadavers and ossuaries: the photography of Simon Marsden and Paul Koudounaris 6.5 Modern photography Chapter 7 7.1 Gothic scripts, fonts, ciphers and calligraphy 7.2 A dark chaos of marbled papers 7.3 Gothic labelling, packaging and ads 7.4 Graffiti, curses, sigils and heraldry 7.5 Tapestries and embroidery 7.6 Book covers and magazine covers 7.7 Record and CD cover art Chapter 8 8.1 Gothic costume, ancient and modern 8.2 Gothic jewellery 8.3 ‘Gothic toys through Gothic glass’ 8.4 Masks, weapons, and athames 8.5 Playing cards and the Tarot Chapter 9 9.1 New media: the art of Gothic gaming and horror apps 9.2 Ghost trains 9.3 Horror environments and itineraries, escape rooms, Halloween hayrides and tourist attractions 9.4 Gothic installations 9.5 Performance art, body art, tattoos and facepaint Index -- .

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'With 60 luscious black and white illustrations, Gothic Effigy is a real feast for the eyes as well as a stimulating and encyclopaedic intervention in Gothic Studies. The book takes its readers on an ambitious journey through the various histories of Gothic visual media, most of which have only peripherally been the subject of academic attention. Bringing together traditional architecture, sculpture and painting with more modern artistic and ludic ephemera like jewellery, Halloween hayrides and graffiti, David Annwn Jones's new book proves to be original, erudite, approachable and necessary. Nothing short of an instant classic.' Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University -- .

‘With 60 luscious black and white illustrations, Gothic Effigy is a real feast for the eyes as well as a stimulating and encyclopaedic intervention in Gothic Studies. The book takes its readers on an ambitious journey through the various histories of Gothic visual media, most of which have only peripherally been the subject of academic attention. Bringing together traditional architecture, sculpture and painting with more modern artistic and ludic ephemera like jewellery, Halloween hayrides and graffiti, David Annwn Jones’s new book proves to be original, erudite, approachable and necessary. Nothing short of an instant classic.’ Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University -- .

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David Annwn Jones is Lecturer in English at the Open University

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