Beschreibung:
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. ¿ ¿
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