The Supernatural Sublime

Klappentext Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández is an associate professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and film and media studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Mexico's Ruins: Juan Garcia Ponce and the Writing of Modernity. Claudia Schaefer is the Rush Rhees Chair and a professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and film and media studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of several books, including Lens, Laboratory, Landscape: Observing Modern Spain and Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain. Zusammenfassung Explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of emotion without explanation.

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Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández is an associate professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and film and media studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Mexico’s Ruins: Juan Garcia Ponce and the Writing of Modernity. Claudia Schaefer is the Rush Rhees Chair and a professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and film and media studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of several books, including Lens, Laboratory, Landscape: Observing Modern Spain and Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain.

Zusammenfassung
Explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of emotion without explanation.

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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Anxiety, Awe, and the Changing Shape of Fear
2. Porous Landscapes of the Modern World: The Witch as Sublime Intruder
3. Haunted Houses: Inheriting the Supernatural
4. Evil in the Classroom: The Fascination and Danger of Schools for Girls
5. A Desperate Longing for Order: The Masks of Innocence
6. Patterns of Temporal Terror: A Repetition Compulsion?
7. Conclusion: Sublime Afterimages
   Appendix: Filmography
   Notes
   References
   Index