Gothic effigy (eBook)

David Annwn Jones is Lecturer in English at the Open University

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