Projecting phantasy: the spectre in cinema McRae, Donna Leanne 10.4225/03/58a675fb6b337 https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Projecting_phantasy_the_spectre_in_cinema/4664482 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. 2017-02-17 04:03:03 monash:85452 ethesis-20120619-082050 Cinematic ghosts 1959.1/573503 Open access thesis(doctorate) 2012