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Twenty-First-Century Gothic de Maisha Wester

Twenty-First-Century Gothic: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

Editat de Maisha Wester, Xavier Aldana Reyes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2021
A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial Gothic
Key Features
  • Covers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic tradition
  • Consitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approach
  • Covers a plurality of texts, from novels such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005), Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching (2009), Justin Cronin's The Passage (2010) and M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts (2014), to films such as Kairo (2001), Juan of the Dead (2012) and The Darkside (2013), to series such as Dante's Cove (2005-7), Hemlock Grove (2013-15), Penny Dreadful (2014-16) Black Mirror (2011-) and even the Slenderman mythos.
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. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters - including zombies, vampires and werewolves - and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474440936
ISBN-10: 1474440932
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 153 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Colecția Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Seria Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

Notă biografică

Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (Palgrave, 2012) and is currently writing a monograph on Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in American Horror Culture (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press).
Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge, 2016) and Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film (University of Wales Press, 2014). He is also the editor of Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publications, 2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon, co-edited with Dr Linnie Blake (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Gothic in the Twenty-first Century, Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana Reyes; PART 1. UPDATING THE TRADITION; 1. Postcolonial Gothic, Sarah Ilott; 2. Queer Gothic, Andrew J. Owens; 3. Postfeminist Gothic, Gina Wisker; 4. Neoliberal Gothic, Linnie Blake; 5. Gothic Digital Technologies, Joseph Crawford; PART 2. CONTEMPORARY MONSTERS; 6. Contemporary Zombies, Xavier Aldana Reyes; 7. Contemporary Vampires, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; 8. Contemporary Serial Killers, Bernice M. Murphy; 9. Contemporary Ghosts, Murray Leeder; 10. Contemporary Werewolves, Kaja Franck and Sam George; PART 3. CONTEMPORARY SUBGENRES; 11. The New Weird, Carl H. Sederholm; 12. Ecogothic, Sharae Deckard; 13. Gothic Comedy, Catherine Spooner; 14. Steampunk, Claire Nally; 15. Posthuman Gothic, Anya Heise-von der Lippe; PART 4. ETHNOGOTHIC; 16. South African Gothic, Rebecca Duncan; 17. Asian Gothic, Katarzyna Ancuta; 18. Latin American Gothic, Enrique Ajuria Ibarra; 19. Aboriginal Gothic, Katrin Althans; 20. Black Diasporic Gothic, Maisha Wester; Notes on the Contributors; Index.

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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.