Murray J.D. Leeder
Canadian writer and film scholar known for fantasy fiction—particularly the Forgotten Realms novel Son of Thunder—and academic work on horror cinema; he commonly publishes under the byline “Murray J.D. Leeder.”
Books
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1. Cinematic Ghosts
Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era
This edited collection explores how film has imagined ghosts across more than a century, showing how cinema’s unique relationship to time, memory, and the photographic trace makes it a natural medium for the spectral. Spanning early trick films, classic horror, global traditions, and the digital era, the essays examine haunting through lenses such as hauntology, psychoanalysis, and cultural history. Together they trace how evolving technologies and contexts reshape representations of the uncanny while reflecting on history, trauma, and the persistence of the past.
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