The Palgrave handbook of contemporary gothic. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Clive Bloom.
• Editors: Bloom, Clive
• Contents: Acknowledgements.- Clive Bloom: Introduction to the Volume: Welcome to Hell.- 1: Global Gothics.- Ines Ordiz & Sandra Casanova.- Vizcaino: Latin American Horror.- Joan Passey: Dark Tourism.- Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: Twentieth Century Mexican Gothic Literature.- Tijana Parezanović and Marko Lukić: Dark Urbanity.- Jessica Gildersleeve: Contemporary Australian Trauma.- Gina Wisker: Gothic Postcolonialisms.- Naomi Simone Borwein: Strains of the South.- Angela Elisa Schoch/Davidson: Indigenous Alterations.- Tosha R Taylor: Hillbilly Horror.- Gerry Del Guercio: Southern Agrarianism and Exploitation.- 2: Hostile Environments.- Lauren Stephenson: The Male Body in British 'Hoodie' Horror.- David Annwn Jones: Green Trends in Euro-horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s.- Emily Alder and Jenny Bavidge: Ecocriticism and the Gothic Genre.- Kaja Franck : The Wilderness.- Paulina Palmer: 'Queer' Representations of Rural and Urban Locations.- 3: Occult Gothic.- James Machin: Making Occult Meaning.- Timothy Jones: The Black Magic Story.- 4: Dark Romance.- Holly Hirst: Twentieth Century Gothic Romance.- Holly Hirst: Georgette Heyer.- 5: The Body in Pieces.- Xavier Aldana Reyes: Abjection and Body Horror.- Tosha R Taylor: Torture Porn.- 6: Psychological Gothic.- Laura R. Kremmel: The Gothic Asylum.- Lauren Christie: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and the Psychotic Mind.- Bob Shepherd: Beyond the Unfeeling Narcissus to Patrick Bateman.- 7: Post Human Gothic.- Naomi Borwein: Global War from Tokyo to Barcelona.- Holly-Gale Millette: The Posthuman Interstellar Gothic Genre.- Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: Degeneration in H. P. Lovecraft and William Hope Hodgson.- James Machin: Lovecraft, Decadence, and Aestheticism.- 8: Zombie Gothic.- Kelly Gardner : Zombie Folklore to Existential Protagonists.- Kelly Gardner : The Sentient Zombie.- 9: New Vampire Gothic.- Simon Bacon: Transmedia Vampires.- Simon Bacon: The Post-human Vampire.- Laura Davidel: Monstrosity, Performativity and Performance.- 10. Gothic Film.- Laura Sedgwick: Ghostly Gimmicks: Spectral Special Effects in Haunted House Films.- Brian Jarvis: Universal Horror.- Stacey Abbott: Arthouse Gothic Cinema.- Tanja Jurkovic: The Horror Genre in Balkan Cinema.- Agnieszka Kotwasinska: The Gothic in Slavic Cinema.- Joana Rita Ramalho: Gothic Gender Politics in a High-Camp, Lowbrow Musical.- Murray Leeder: Roger Corman.- Brian Jarvis: David Lynch.- 11. Gothic Television.- J S Mackley: Doctor Who: Identity, Time and Terror.- J S Mackley Nigel Kneale and Quatermass.- Stephanie Mulholland: Dark Costume in Contemporary Television.- Chelsea Eddy: Wildlings, White Walkers, and Watchers on the Wall of Northumberland's Borderland.- Tanja Jurkovic: Contemporary Grand Guignol.- 12. Gothic Music.- Joana Rita Ramalho: The Blasphemous Grotesqueries of The Tiger Lillies.- Antonio Alcalá González: The Return of the Past in Black Metal Lyrics.- 13. Interactive Gothic.- Jen Baker: Interactive and Movable Books in the Tradition.- Jon Garrad: The Evolving Genre of the Vampire Games.- Erika Kvistad: The Digital Haunted House.- David Langdon: Anxiety in the Digital Age.- Tosha R Taylor: Horror Memes and Digital Culture.- Alison Bainbridge : Virtual Desert Horrors.- Madelon Hoedt: Immersive and Pervasive Performance.- 14. Gothic Lifestyle.- Victoria Amador: Fashion Gothwear.- Alex Bevan: Walking with the Lancashire Witches.- Jennifer Richards: The Influence of the Gothic in High Fashion.- Jenevieve Van-Veda: The Geisha Ghost.- 15. Young Gothic.- Chloe Buckley: Encounters with the 'hidden' world in Modern Children's Fiction.- Michelle Smith & Kristine Moruzi: Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction.- Julia Round: Horror Hosts in British Girls' Comics.- Valeria Iglesias: Lemony Snicket.- 16. Gothic Auteurs.- Simon Brown: James Herbert's Working Class Horror.- Mark Richard Adams: Clive Barker's Hellraiser.- Sian MacArthur: Re-defining the Gothic Genre with Mo Hayder.- Brian Jarvis: Stephen King.- 17. Theoretical Gothic.- Giles Whiteley: Three French Modernists.- Matt Foley: Dark Modernisms.- 18. Post Modern Gothic.- Joakim Wrethed: The Postmodern Genre.- Marko Lukić and Tijana Parezanović: Heterotopian Horrors.- Michail-Chrysovalantis Markodimitrakis: The New Batman.- List of Contributors to the Volume.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.1; Goth culture (Subculture); Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism; Popular culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030331368
• Related ISBNs: 9783030331351
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