Clive Barker (eBook, ePUB)

Dark imaginer
Redaktion: Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection, innovative essays by leading scholars in the fields of literature, film and popular culture explore Barker's contribution to gothic, fantasy and horror studies, interrogating his creative legacy.

The volume consists of an extensive introduction and twelve groundbreaking essays that critically reevaluate Barker's oeuvre. These include in-depth analyses of his celebrated and lesser known novels, short stories, theme park designs, screen and comic book adaptations, film direction and production, sketches and book illustrations, as well as responses to his material from critics and fan communities. Clive Barker: Dark imaginer reveals the breadth and depth of Barker's distinctive dark vision, which continues to fascinate and flourish.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526122087
• Artikelnr.: 60365633

Autorenporträt

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Literature, and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

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