Fairytale and Gothic Horror Uncanny Transformations in Film /

• Main Author: Hubner, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Film genres.; Literature.; Motion pictures.; Genre.; Literature, general.; Film Theory.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Fairytale Roots and Transformations
• 3. Gothic Transgression, Horror, 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.