"This book builds on my dissertation, "Early cinema and the supernatural", defended at Carleton University in 2011." - Seite vii
Dissertation, Carleton University, 2011
1. Introduction -- 2. The Haunting of Film Theory -- 3. Light and Lies: Screen Practice and (Super-) Natural Magic -- 4. The Strange Case of George Albert Smith: Mesmerism, Psychical Research and Cinema -- 5. Aesthetics of Co-registration: Spirit Photography, X-rays and Cinema -- 6. Melies's Skeleton: Gender, Cinema's Danse Macabre and the Erotics of Bone -- 7. "Living Pictures at Will": Projecting Haunted Minds -- 8. Conclusion: Lost Worlds, Ghost Worlds.
