The Scene of Haunting in Silent Adaptations of A Christmas Carol
Abstract
This article argues for the “lanternic” or “phantasmago- rical” qualities of Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol, in which the ghosts are figures of authorship and manipulators of images. It further articles that the qual- ities carry over strongly into the story’s silent-era film adaptations, of which four (dated 1901, 1910, 1913 and 1923) are examined for a sense of medium awareness ex- pressed through film form. It ends with remarks on the 2009 Robert Zemeckis adaptation as a digital era-inheri- tor to this reflexive tendency.
Silent films | ghosts | supernatural | adaptation | medium awareness | reflexivity
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