The California Gothic In Fiction And Film
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| Author | : Charles L. Crow |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 82 |
| Release | : 2024-01-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1839983817 |
California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the California dream of happiness in a land of new beginnings has been maintained by suppression of disturbing realities: above all, the destruction of native peoples; and by events and facts such as the tragedy of the Donner Party, the persistence of poverty and crime in the golden land, disturbing crimes such as the Black Dahlia; and pandemics and ecological disaster. This book explores a rich Gothic tradition that exposes the repressed past and imagines the fates awaiting a failed California.
| Author | : B. Murphy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2009-08-21 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0230244750 |
The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road Through the Wall , Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade, including I Am Legend , Bewitched , Halloween and Desperate Housewives .
| Author | : B. Murphy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2013-10-31 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137353724 |
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.
| Author | : Dennis Etchison |
| Publisher | : Constable |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781854874153 |
Dan and his wife Evie had buried the past a past in which Dan was a poet and a member of a radical cult which the FBI eventually hunted down and destroyed. Now in a world without a past, in a land of celluloid dreams, what was once killed has come alive again...
| Author | : Elizabeth McCarthy |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2016-10-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476626537 |
In recent years horror and gothic themes have penetrated mainstream popular culture in a manner unseen since the horror boom of the 1970s. Primetime television viewers who before might not have shown interest in such late-night fare now happily settle down after dinner to watch zombie or serial killer shows. This collection of 54 biographical essays examines many overlooked and underrated figures who have played a role in the ever expanding world of horror and gothic entertainment. The contributors push the boundaries of how we define these terms, bringing into the discussion such diverse figures as singer-songwriter Tom Waits, occultist Dion Fortune, author Charles Beaumont, historian and bishop Gregory of Tours and video game designer Shinji Mikami.
| Author | : L. Andrew Cooper |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786457880 |
Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence--this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics' fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and other works helped construct homosexuality as a pathological, dangerous phenomenon. It then turns to television and film, particularly Buffy the Vampire Slayer and David DeCoteau's direct-to-video movies, to trace Gothicized sexuality's lasting impact. Moving to heretical beliefs, Gothic Realities surveys ghost stories from Dickens's A Christmas Carol to Poltergeist, articulating the relationships between fiction and the "real" supernatural. Finally, it considers connections between Gothic horror and real-world violence, especially the tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech.
| Author | : Bernice M Murphy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-05-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781474497879 |
Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
| Author | : Catherine Spooner |
| Publisher | : Cambridge History of the G |
| Total Pages | : 555 |
| Release | : 2021-08-19 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1108472729 |
The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.
| Author | : Judith Halberstam |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780822316633 |
Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity -- Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia? -- Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws -- Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs -- Conclusion: serial killing.
| Author | : Denis Johnson |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2003-03-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061869201 |
A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land. Nelson has some serious problems. His marriage has fallen apart, and he may lose his land, cash and crop in the divorce. What's more, in need of some quick cash, he had foolishly agreed to smuggle $90,000 worth of cocaine through customs for Harry Lally, a major player in a drug syndicate. Chickening out just before bringing the drugs through, he flushed the powder. Now Lally wants him dead, and two goons are hot on his trail. Desperate, terrified and alone, for Nelson, there may be only one way out. This is Denis Johnson's biggest and most complex book to date, and it perfectly showcases his signature themes of fate, redemption and the unraveling of the fabric of today's society. Already Dead, with its masterful narrative of overlapping and entwined stories, will further fuel the acclaim that surrounds one of today's most fascinating writers.
