Twenty-First-Century Gothic (eBook, PDF)

An Edinburgh Companion
Redaktion: Wester, Maisha; Reyes, Xavier Aldana

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial GothicKey FeaturesCovers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConsitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approachCovers 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474440943
• Artikelnr.: 72418314

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.