German Gil-Curiel PhD (Sheffield), MA, BA, FHEA, is Lecturer in Film at the Sino-British College, Shanghai, China. Also an accomplished classical guitarist, his main research and teaching interests are on the relationship between music, film and literature. He is the author of Music, Literature and Cinema: A Comparative Approach to the Aesthetics of Death in Tous les matins du monde (2009); The Cinematic Texts of Edgar Allan Poe: from the Written Word to Digital Art (2012); and From Page to Screen: The Supernatural in Literature and on Film, among others.