written resources.

this will be updated sporadically in 2024.

Magic Lantern, Magician, Early Cinema

·      Barnouw, Erik “The Magician and the Cinema” Oxford University Press 1981

·      Gunning, Tom “An Aesthetic of Astonishment : Early Film and the (in)Credulous Spectator”. In Art and Text (34) : 31-45. 1989

·      Gunning, Tom “‘Primitive’ Cinema : A Frame-Up? Or the Trick’s on Us”. In Cinema Journal (28) 2 : 3-12. 1989

·      Gunning, Tom “Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations : Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films, and Photography’s Uncanny”. In FugitiveImages : From Photography to Video. P. Petro (Ed.), Bloomington : Indiana University Press : 42-71. 1995

·      Gunning, Tom “The Cinema of Attraction : Early Cinema, Its Spectator, and the Avant-Garde”. In Film and Theory : An Anthology. R. Stam and T. Miller (Eds.), Malden : Blackwell : 229-235. 2000

·      Gunning, Tom “Fantasmagorie et fabrication de l’illusion : pour une culture optique du dispositif cinématographique”. In Cinémas (14) 1 : 67-89. 2003

·      Gunning, Tom “To Scan a Ghost : The Ontology of Mediated Vision”. In Grey Room (26) : 94-127. 2007

·      Gunning, Tom “The Epistemology of the Moving Image”. Paper delivered at the Moving Image Studies - ARTHEMIS Conference. Montréal, 4-7 June 2010.

·      Hopkins, Albert A. “Magic : Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography”. New York : Munn & Co. 1897

·      Lachapelle, Sofie “From the Stage to the Laboratory : Magicians, Psychologists, and the Science of Illusion”. In Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (44) 4 : 319-334. 2008

·      Lamont, Peter “Magician as Conjuror : A Frame Analysis of Victorian Mediums”. In Early Popular Visual Culture (4) 1 : 21-33. 2006

·      Leeder, Murray “The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema” Palgrave Macmillan 2017

·      MASKELYNE, J. N. “Modern Spiritualism : A Short Account of Its Rise and Progress, with Some Exposures of So-Called Spirit Media”. London : F. Warne. 1876

·      MASKELYNE, J. N. “Modern Spiritualism”. In The Supernatural?. L. A. Weatherly (Ed.), Bristol : Arrowsmith. 1891

·      Natale, Simone “Spiritualism Exposed : Scepticism, Credulity and Spectatorship in End-of-the-Century America”. In European Journal of American Culture (29) 2 : 131-144. 2010

·      Natale, Simone “Photography and Communication Media in the Nineteenth Century”. In History of Photography (36) 3 : 451-456. 2012

·      Natale, Simone “A Short History of Superimposition : From Spirit Photography to Early Cinema”. In Early Popular Visual Culture (10) 2 : 125-145. 2012

·      Natale, Simone “Un dispositivo fantasmatico : cinema e spiritismo”. In Bianco e Nero (573) : 82-91. 2012

·      North, Dan “Magic and Illusion in Early Cinema”. In Studies in French Cinema (1) 2 : 70-79. 2001

·      North, Dan “Performing Illusions : Cinema, Special Effects and the Virtual Actor”. London : Wallflower Press. 2008

·      Solomon, Matthew “Disappearing Tricks; Silent Film, Houdini and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century” University of Illinois Press 2010

·      Hurley, K. “The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the fin de siècle”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996

·      Wilson, Leigh, Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult, Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2013

 

Occult Performance 

·      Lingan, Edmund B. “The Theater of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual Performance from 1875 to the Present” Palgrave Macmillan (2014)

 

Witches

·      Greene, Heather “Bell, Book and Candle; A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television” MacFarland and Company Inc., Publishers 2018

·      Beckman, Karen Redrobe. Vanishing Women : Magic, Film, and Feminism. Durham : Duke University Press. 2003

·      Fischer, Lucy “The Lady Vanishes : Women, Magic and the Movies”. In Film Quarterly (33) 1979

·      Martin, Kameelah L. “Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics” Lexington Books 2016

·      Cocoran, Miranda, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, Horror Studies, July 2022

https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/witchcraft-and-adolescence-in-american-popular-culture/

 

Occult Representation

·      Huckvale, David “Movie Magick; The Occult in Film” MacFarland and Company Inc., Publishers 2018

·      Sargeant, Jack, “Luminous Screen; The Influence of the Esoteric in Cinema” in '“Abraxas;  International Journal of Esoteric Studies” Special Issue #2, Fulgar Limited, Winter 2014

·      Andriopoulos, Stefan “Psychic Television”, Critical Inquiry , Vol. 31, No. 3 (Spring 2005), pp. 618-637, The University of Chicago Press

·      Crab, Jon, “Experiments in Film and Magic: The Phantasmagoria of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin” Abraxas Special Issue #2 “Luminous Screen: The Influence of the Esoteric in Cinema” Winter 2014 Fulgar press

·      Sconce, Jeffrey “Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television” Duke University Press, Durham & London (2000)

·      Barford, Duncan, The Magic of A Dark Song: The Abramelin Ritual in Fiction and Reality, Heptarchia, Hurstpieroint, United Kingdom 2021

·      Moore, Rachel O, Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic, Duke University Press, Durham & London 2000

 

Occult Radiophonic/ Media

·      Banks, Joe “Rorschach Audio: Ghost Voices and Perceptual Creativity” Leonardo Music Journal , 2001, Vol. 11, Not Necessarily "English Music": Britain's Second Golden Age (2001), pp. 77-83, The MIT Press

·      Bebergal, Peter “Strange Frequencies” Teacher Perigee New York (2018)

·      Cirauqui, Manuel “Thanatophonics: From White Noise to Forensic Radio” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Vol. 35, No. 2 (MAY 2013), pp. 20-25, The MIT Press on behalf of Performing Arts Journal, Inc

·      Cox, Christoph “THE ALIEN VOICE: Alvin Lucier’s North American Time Capsule 1967” Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts, University of California Press. (2012)

·      Konstantinos “You Can Hear Dead People” FATE Magazine 2001-02-01

·      Raudive, Konstantin, “Breakthrough: An amazing experiment in electronic communication with the dead” Colin Smythe Ltd; Illustrated edition (April 1, 1971)

·      Rogo, Scott D “A Casebook of Otherworldly Music” Vol.1 of Paranormal Music Experiences, Anomalist Books (1970)

·      Rogo, Scott D “A Psychic Study of the Music of the Spheres” Vol.2 of Paranormal Music Experiences, Anomalist Books (1972)

·      Weiss, Allen S. “Breathless” Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, Connecticut (2002)

·      Weiss, Allen S. “Experimental Sound and Radio” The MIT Press (2001)

·      Whitehead, Gregory, “Radio Play Is No Place: A Conversation between Jérôme Noetinger and Gregory Whitehead”  TDR (1988-) , Autumn, 1996, Vol. 40, No. 3, Experimental Sound & Radio (Autumn, 1996), pp. 96-101, The MIT Press

·      Whitehead, Gregory and Khan, Douglas, “Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avantgarde” The MIT Press (1992)

·      Fred Botting, Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, gothic (Manchester University Press 2008)

·      Tom J. Hillard, From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: The Puritan influence on American Gothic Nature, Ecogothic (Manchester University Press 2013)

·      Warner Maria, Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the 21st Century Oxford University Press 2006

·      Richard Hand, Listen in Terror: British Horror Radio from the Advent of Broadcasting to the Digital Age ( Manchester University Press, 2014)

·      Tart, C 1969 Altered States of Consciousness, New York Wiley 1980 A System of Approach to Altered States of Consciousness, in The Psychobiology of Consciousness, ed J. Davidson and R Davidson. New York Plenum Press

 

Folk Horror

·      Fenton, Harvey and David Flint (eds) Ten Years of Terror. Guildford: Fab press 2001.

·      Hogan, David, Dark Romance: Sex and Death in The Horror Film. London: Equation, 1986

·      Hutchings, Peter, Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1998

·      Magisrale, Tony, Abject Terror: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film, new York: Peter Lang 2005

·      Smith, Gary A., Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Ange of British Horror Films, 1956-1976. London McFarland and Company 2000

·      Bacon, Simon, ed., Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures, Lexington Books, forthcoming, July 2023.

·      Bayman, Louis, and Donnelly, K. J., eds., Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed, Manchester University Press, forthcoming, October 2023.

·      Beem, Katherine, Paciorek, Andy, et al., Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies, Wyrd Harvest Press, 2015.

·      Brodie, Ian, “‘Wow, this place is spooky at night! Suburban Ennui, Legend Quests and What Folk Horror Shares with Scooby-Doo,” Keetley and Heholt, Folk Horror, pp. 75-90.

·      Brooks, Kinitra, Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror, Rutgers University Press, 2017. (See chapter 4, “Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women’s Creative Horror,” pp. 95-126.)

·      Budzinski, Nathaniel, “‘It’s All an Indian Burial Ground’: Folk Horror Cinema’s Reckoning with Colonial Violence,” ArtReview, 10 December 2021.

·      Chambers, Jamie, “Troubling Folk Horror: Exoticism, Metonymy, and Solipsism in the ‘Unholy Trinity’ and Beyond,” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61:2 (Winter 2022): 9-34.

·      Cowdell, Paul, “‘Practising Witchcraft Myself During the Filming’: Folk Horror, Folklore, and the Folkloresque,” Western Folklore 78:4 (Fall 2019): 295-326.

·      Edgar, Robert, and Johnson, Wayne, eds., The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, Routledge, forthcoming, 2023.

·      Hauke, Alexandra, “Dreaming of Leviathan: John Langan’s The Fisherman and American Folk Horror,” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural 5 (March 2020): 167-94.

·      Horror Studies, special issue on folk horror, edited by Dawn Keetley and Jeffrey A. Tolbert, forthcoming fall 2023.

·      Janisse, Kier-La, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, USA: Severin Films, 2022.

·      Kattelman, Beth, “Folk Horror in the Ozarks: The Genre Hybridity of Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone,” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural 5 (March 2020): 109-28.

·      Keetley, Dawn, “Defining Folk Horror,” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural 5 (March 2020): 1-32.

·      Keetley, Dawn, “Forms of Folk Horror in Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” Journal of American Culture 45:4 (December 2022): 373-85.

·      Keetley, Dawn, “Sacrifice Zones in Appalachian Folk Horror,” Keetley and Heholt, Folk Horror, pp. 245-61.

·      Keetley, Dawn, “True Detective’s Folk Gothic,” in Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund (eds), Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene, University of Minnesota Press, 2022, pp. 130-50. (Open Access)

·      Keetley, Dawn, and Heholt, Ruth, Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, University of Wales Press, 2023.

·      Lindvall, Valeria Villegas, “Me quitarán de quererte, Llorona, pero de olividarte nunca’: La Llorona, Colonial Trauma and Mexicanness,” Keetley and Heholt, Folk Horror, pp. 229-42.

·      Luckhurst, Roger, “Brexitland’s Dark Ecologies,” Textual Practice 36:5 (2022): 711-31.

·      Macfarlane, Robert, “The Eeriness of the English Countryside,” The Guardian, 10 April 2105.

·      McDonald, Keith, and Wayne Johnson, Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film: Transnational Perspectives, Anthem Press, 2021. (See chapter 3, “Folk in Hell: Rurality in Transition,” pp. 57-79.)

·      Murphy, Bernice M., “Black Boxes: Tradition and Human Sacrifice in American Folk Horror,” Keetley and Heholt, Folk Horror, pp. 127-40.

·      Murphy, Bernice M., “Folk Horror,” in Stephen Shapiro and Mark Storey (eds), The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 139-53.

·      Newland, Paul, “Folk Horror and the Contemporary Cult of British Rural Landscape: The Case of Blood on Satan’s Claw,” in Paul Newland (ed.), British Landscapes on Film, Manchester University Press, 2016, pp. 162-79.

·      Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernaturalspecial issue on folk horror, edited by Dawn Keetley, 5 (2020).

·      Rodgers, Diane A., “Something ‘Wyrd’ This Way Comes: Folklore and British Television,” Folklore 130 (June 2019): 133-52.

·      Scovell, Adam, Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange, Auteur, 2017.

·      Thurgill, James, “A Fear of the Folk: On topophobia and the Horror of Rural Landscapes,” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural 5 (March 2020): 33-56.

·      Tolbert, Jeffrey A., “The Frightening Folk: An Introduction to the Folkloresque in Horror,” Keetley and Heholt, Folk Horror, pp. 25-41.

·      Turner, Peter, “Supernatural Folklore in the Blair Witch Films: New Project, New Proof,” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural 5 (March 2020): 129-43.

·      Walsh, Brendan C., “Colonising the Devil’s Territories: The Historicity of Providential New England Folklore in The VVitch,” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural 5 (March 2020): 144-66.