...This chapter provides a reading of the film through the central figures of German Idealism, namely Hegel and Schelling. Through It demonstrates that Hegel’s metaphor for the ‘night of the world’ is drawn from the early optical media of magic lantern projections called phantasmagoria...

...A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night analyses the eponymous film within three theoretical coordinates: vampire cinema, psychoanalytic (film) theory and German Idealism. The book situates the film in the history of the vampire genre through the spectral vampire in early German...