Clive Barker : Dark imaginer /: Dark imaginer. (2017)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Clive Barker : Dark imaginer /: Dark imaginer. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Clive Barker : Dark imaginer
- Further Information:
- Note: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.
- Editors:
- Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha
- Contents:
- Introduction: ‘To darken the day and brighten the night’: Clive Barker, dark imaginer – Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; Part I: Origins ; 1 ‘Visions of another Albion’: the Books of Blood and the horror of 1980s Britain – Darryl Jones; 2 ‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’: the Books of Blood and the transformation of the weird – Kevin Corstorphine; 3 When fantasy becomes reality: social commentary of 1980s Britain in Clive Barker’s Weaveworld – Edward Timothy Wallington; Part II: Screening Barker ; 4 The joyless magic of Lord of Illusions – Harvey O’Brien; 5 Drawing (to) fear and horror: into the frame of Clive Barker’s The Midnight Meat Train and Dread comic and film adaptations – Bernard Perron; 6 Beauty, pain and desire: gothic aesthetics and feminine identification in the filmic adaptations of Clive Barker – Brigid Cherry; Part III: Labyrinths of desire ; 7 Clive Barker's queer monsters: exploring transgression, sexuality and the other – Mark Richard Adams; 8 Breaking through the canvas: towards a definition of (meta)cultural blackness in the fantasies of Clive Barker – Tony M. Vinci; 9 ‘A far more physical experience than the cinema affords’: Clive Barker’s Halloween Horror Nights and brand authorship – Gareth James; Part IV: Legacy ; 10 ‘What price wonderland?’: Clive Barker and the spectre of realism – Daragh Downes; 11 Clive Barker’s late (anti-)horror fiction: Tortured Souls and Mister B. Gone ’s new myths of the flesh – Xavier Aldana Reyes; 12 The Devil and Clive Barker:Introduction: ‘To darken the day and brighten the night’: Clive Barker, dark imaginer – Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; Part I: Origins ; 1 ‘Visions of another Albion’: the Books of Blood and the horror of 1980s Britain – Darryl Jones; 2 ‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’: the Books of Blood and the transformation of the weird – Kevin Corstorphine; 3 When fantasy becomes reality: social commentary of 1980s Britain in Clive Barker’s Weaveworld – Edward Timothy Wallington; Part II: Screening Barker ; 4 The joyless magic of Lord of Illusions – Harvey O’Brien; 5 Drawing (to) fear and horror: into the frame of Clive Barker’s The Midnight Meat Train and Dread comic and film adaptations – Bernard Perron; 6 Beauty, pain and desire: gothic aesthetics and feminine identification in the filmic adaptations of Clive Barker – Brigid Cherry; Part III: Labyrinths of desire ; 7 Clive Barker's queer monsters: exploring transgression, sexuality and the other – Mark Richard Adams; 8 Breaking through the canvas: towards a definition of (meta)cultural blackness in the fantasies of Clive Barker – Tony M. Vinci; 9 ‘A far more physical experience than the cinema affords’: Clive Barker’s Halloween Horror Nights and brand authorship – Gareth James; Part IV: Legacy ; 10 ‘What price wonderland?’: Clive Barker and the spectre of realism – Daragh Downes; 11 Clive Barker’s late (anti-)horror fiction: Tortured Souls and Mister B. Gone ’s new myths of the flesh – Xavier Aldana Reyes; 12 The Devil and Clive Barker: Faustian bargains and gothic filigree – Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
- Subjects:
- PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781526122087
1526122081 - Access Rights:
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.704240
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