%0 Thesis %A McRae, Donna Leanne %D 2017 %T Projecting phantasy: the spectre in cinema %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Projecting_phantasy_the_spectre_in_cinema/4664482 %R 10.4225/03/58a675fb6b337 %2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/7606957 %K monash:85452 %K ethesis-20120619-082050 %K Cinematic ghosts %K 1959.1/573503 %K Open access %K thesis(doctorate) %K 2012 %X This research project explores various ghosts of cinema. The studio component is a feature film Johnny Ghost (76 minutes, B&W, 2011) which explores ‘cryptic incorporation’, in which grieving is left incomplete. The lead character, Millicent, is a professional musician who lectures in music at a university. She is also a recovering alcoholic who has a commemorative tattoo stretching across her shoulder. When she finally decides to remove it, she encounters ghosts of her post-punk past who won’t let her move on. In the accompanying exegesis, other types of cinematic ghost are considered; from the spectral beings engineered to thrill us with fear to the ghosts of memory and regret, and the ethereal emanations that film itself inevitably contains. I argue that the experience of watching a long dead actor enacting a supernatural narrative on the screen is strangely ironic, given that the actors themselves fit the exact definition of a ghost. %I Monash University