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Uncanny bodies: the coming of sound film and the origins of the horror genre

2008; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 45; Issue: 07 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.45-3685

1943-5975

Robert Spadoni,

Narrative Theory and Analysis

Uncanny Bodies is a subtle and revealing study of the transition era between the silent film and the sound film, more specifically the period between 1926 until about 1931.Spadoni gives an original twist to his subject, that has been well examined from different perspectives, by meticulously focusing on two horror films, both from 1931, Tod Browning's Dracula and James Whale's Frankenstein.Spadoni foregrounds the notion of 'the uncanny body' in the transition era of the sound film to indicate the ghostlike, eerie impression made by human