The New Urban Gothic : Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene /: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Holly-Gale Millette, Ruth Heholt.
• Editors: Millette, Holly-Gale; Heholt, Ruth
• Contents: Introduction: The New Urban Gothic – Holly-Gale Millette and Ruth Heholt.- Section One – Urban Gothic Bodies.- Introductory Overview: 'Urban Gothic, A Retrospective' – Julian Wolfreys.- Chapter One: Paulina Palmer, ''I hide a great secret. One that marks me out as grotesque': Freaks, Monstrosity and Secrets in Victorian London'.- Chapter Two: Simon Bacon, 'The Degenerating City: The Gothicized Disabled Body as Nexus of Pollution in the Modern Urban Space as Depicted in The Strain Trilogy'.- Chapter Three: Wymar Strydom, 'Queer sockets: Electricity as Relationality in the New Urban Gothic'.- Chapter Four: Martyn Colebrook, 'The City and the City: Monstrous Urbanities in L.A. Noire and This is the Police'.- Chapter Five: R. M. Francis, 'A Very Queer Black Country'.- Section Two – Urban Gothic Ruin.- Introductory Overview: 'New Directions: Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene' – Holly-Gale Millette.- Chapter Six: Madelon Hoedt, ''Lord, what a splendid world we ruined': The city and the underground in Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light'.- Chapter Seven: Karl Bell, 'The City of (Dreadful) Light: The New Urban Gothic Mindscape in China Miéville's The Last Days of New Paris'.- Chapter Eight: Tanya Krzywinska, ''Everything is True' A Weird Tale: Urban Gothic meets Urban Myth in Multiplayer Online Game, The Secret World'.- Chapter Nine: Garth Sabo, ''A Weapon in the Cracks': Wasteways Between Worlds in the New Urban Gothic'.- Chapter Ten: Leila Taylor, 'The Rust Belt Ruin and the Gothic Genius Loci of Detroit'.- Section Three – New Global Gothic and Urban Hauntings.- Introductory Overview: 'Global Gothic – Urban Hauntings' – Ruth Heholt.- Chapter Eleven: Gina Wisker, 'Singapore: Skyscrapers and Ghosts, Pontianaks and Pangolins in the Night'.- Chapter Twelve: Anne-Marie Lopez, 'Red Light East: Spaces of Corruption and Female Exploitation in Global Noir'.- Chapter Thirteen: Michael Fuchs, 'Never Accept—Always Question: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Neo-Victorian London in The Order: 1886'.- Chapter Fourteen: Kwasu Tembo, 'Cities of Night and Distant Stars: The Gothico-Surreal Aesthetic in Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg (1985)'.- Chapter Fifteen: Molly Slavin, ''In Those Days The Little City of Srinigar Died With the Light': The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic'.- Chapter Sixteen: Xavier Alanda Reyes, 'Gothic Barcelona, Barcelona Gothic: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marketing and the Legacy of the Francoist Past'.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Science -- Environmental Science; Social Science -- Media Studies; Popular culture; The environment; Media studies; Fiction -- Romance -- Gothic; Horror & ghost stories; Goth culture (Subculture) ; Gothic fiction (Literary genre); Popular Culture; Environment; Communication; Environmental sciences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030437770
• Related ISBNs: 9783030437763
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