{"product_id":"the-haunted-screen-9781646053490","title":"The Haunted Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInformed by the eerie paranoia of horror film, J. M. Tyree's uncanny novella follows a couple transplanted to Germany.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile in the throes of writing a book on Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e, a film scholar believes he's being followed by a strange presence. Is this a supernatural force emanating from the prehistoric caves in the region, one captured in lost footage from horror movies filmed in the area in the 1920s? Or is he being stalked by his ex, a mentor, former lover, and brilliant but problematic critic who claims to have discovered the secret history of a supernatural camera used in films by Murnau and Hitchcock?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen our scholar's wife disappears and the local police start investigating him, he attempts to unravel a mystery that takes him to Berlin, to Prague, and into the haunted heart of movies whose scenes appear to be recurring in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving between the double- life of professional networking and obsessive unease, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Screen\u003c\/i\u003e blends the madness and obsession of academia with a dark, thrilling current of psychological mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. M. Tyree\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of \u003ci\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor (with Michael McGriff) of \u003ci\u003eOur Secret Life in the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e, an NPR Best Books selection. A former Capote-Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford, he has published in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSight \u0026amp; Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, and in the BFI Film Classics series of books on film from Bloomsbury and the British Film Institute. He is an associate professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Strange Object","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50888497332498,"sku":"9781646053490","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_99ac286b-b2b9-4634-afc4-0c36c6a70214.jpg?v=1738156004","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-haunted-screen-9781646053490","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}