"Karen Beckman has written an eye-opening book, one that travels across a richly diverse group of texts in order to reveal the vanishing woman's historical underpinnings and cultural work."--Sabrina Barton
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
1. Surplus Bodies, Vanishing Women: Conjuring, Imperialism, and the Rhetoric of Disappearance, 1851–1901 17
2. Insubstantial Media: Ectoplasm, Exposure, and the Stillbirth of Film 61
3. Mother Knows Best: Magic and Matricide 93
4. Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Politics of Prestidigitation 129
5. Shooting Stars, Vanishing Comets: Bette Davis and Cinematic Fading 153
Afterword 189
Notes 195
Works Cited 219
Filmography 233
Index 235
