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The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2024-05-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004698329 |
The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture examines the gothic mode deployed in a variety of texts that touch upon inherently US American themes, demonstrating its versatility and ubiquity across genres and popular media. The volume is divided into four main thematic sections, spanning representations related to ethnic minorities, bodily monstrosity, environmental anxieties, and haunted technology. The chapters explore both overtly gothic texts and pop culture artifacts that, despite not being widely considered strictly so, rely on gothic strategies and narrative devices.
Twenty-First-Century Gothic
Author | : Brigid Cherry |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1527551946 |
The essays in this volume reinterpret and contest the Gothic cultural inheritance, each from a specifically twenty-first century perspective. Most are based on papers delivered at a conference held, appropriately, in Horace Walpoleʼs Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill in West London, which is usually seen as the geographical origin of the first, but not the last, of the many Gothic revivals of the past 300 years. In a contemporary context, the Gothic sensibility could be seen as a mode particularly applicable to the frightening instability of the world in which we find ourselves at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The truth is probably less epochal: that Gothic never went away (when were we ever without fear?), or at least has persisted since its resurgence in the late nineteenth century. Gothic is at least as modern as it is ancient, and each essay in this collection contributes to current scholarship on the Gothic by exploring a particular aspect of Gothic’s contemporaneity. The volume contains papers on horror novels and cinema, poetry, popular music and fan cultures.
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture
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.
The American Imperial Gothic
Author | : Johan Hoglund |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317045181 |
The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British ’imperial gothic’ of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic is obsessed with race, gender, degeneration and invasion, with the destruction of society, the collapse of modernity and the disintegration of capitalism. Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony that goes back to the beginning of the Republic and which have given shape to the first decade of the millennium. From the frontier gothic of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly to the apocalyptic torture porn of Eli Roth's Hostel, the American imperial gothic dramatises the desires and anxieties of empire. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.
American Gothic
Author | : Haslam Jason Haslam |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474410227 |
A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American CultureThis new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events. Key Features Features original critical writing by established and emerging scholarsSurveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to 21st Century worksIncludes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologiesWill establish new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic traditions
The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Author | : Justin Edwards |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136337873 |
This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monsters (from zombies and vampires to werewolves and ghosts) in an age of terror/ism.
Twenty-First-Century Gothic
Author | : Maisha Wester |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474440940 |
"This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film, and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century"--
Henry VIII in Twenty-first-century Popular Culture
Author | : Jonas Takors |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781498544405 |
"For the future, the whole world will talk of him"--"What a king! what a lover! what a man!" -- A shape you'll remember: visual representations -- From her story to his story -- "Around the throne, thunder rolls" -- The Tudors as histosoap (2007-2010) -- "He doesn't look like Rhys Meyers, does he?" versions of Henry VIII in the 2009 quint-centenary -- The king as fool: Henry VIII in comedy -- Conclusion: the Tudors continue
American Gothic Culture
Author | : Joel Faflak |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Companions to the Go |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474401616 |
This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events.