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This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a "ghostly," "spectral" or "haunted" medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the skeletons of the danse macabre and the ghostly spaces of the mind, it uncovers many lost and fascinating connections. The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema locates film's spectral affinities within a history stretching back to the beginning of screen practice and forward to the digital era. In addition to examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers like Georges Méliès and George Albert Smith, it also engages with the representations of cinema's ghostly past in Guy Maddin's recent online project Seances (2016). It is ideal for those interested in the history of cinema, the study of the supernatural and the pre-history of the horror film.

Supernatural in motion pictures --- Surnaturel --- Au cinéma --- Au cinéma.

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American literature --- Fantastic fiction, Canadian --- Supernatural in literature --- Surnaturel dans la littérature --- Fantasy fiction, Canadian. --- Surnaturel dans la littérature

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Women healers --- Journalists --- Paranormal fiction. --- Guérisseuses --- Journalistes --- Surnaturel --- Fiction --- Fiction --- Romans --- Romans --- Romans

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Supernatural in literature --- Fantasy literature --- Science fiction --- Surnaturel dans la littérature --- Littérature fantastique --- Science-fiction --- Encyclopedias --- Bio-bibliography --- Encyclopédies --- Biobibliographie --- Surnaturel dans la littérature --- Littérature fantastique --- Encyclopédies --- Encyclopedias. --- Bio-bibliography.

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Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, 'Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests' argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite& and perhaps even because of& their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' and 'Don Giovanni', building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart's wake.

Musical theater --- Supernatural in musical theater. --- Music and magic. --- Théâtre musical --- Surnaturel dans le théâtre musical --- Musique et magie --- History --- Histoire --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Théâtre musical --- Surnaturel dans le théâtre musical