Globalgothic

by Byron, Glennis

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Full title :Globalgothic / edited by Glennis Byron.

Summary

This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable from the broader global context in which it circulates. Globalgothic expands the horizons of the genre in diverse new and exciting ways.

'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an emerging globalgothic that is simultaneously a continuation of the western tradition and a wholesale transformation of that tradition which expands the horizons of the gothic in diverse new and exciting ways. Globalgothic contains essays from some of the leading scholars in gothic studies as well as offering insights from new scholars in the field. The contributors consider a wide range of different media, including literary texts, film, dance, music, cyberculture, computer games, and graphic novels. This book will be essential reading for all students and academics interested in the gothic, in international literature, cinema, and cyberspace.

This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable from the broader global context in which it circulates. Simultaneously a continuation of the western tradition and a wholesale transformation of that tradition, 'globalgothic' expands the horizons of the genre in diverse new and exciting ways. As these essays well demonstrate, gothic has energetically participated in the cultural flows that characterise globalisation. One of the more striking features of western gothic has always been its delight in consuming and recycling certain persistent motifs, and these flows have functioned both to reinvigorate and intensify this tendency by opening up multiple new fields of play. At the same time as it takes full advantage of the transcultural flows, however, globalgothic often exploits the flows precisely in order to give form to anxieties attendant upon the processes of globalisation. While the products made available through globalisation are eagerly appropriated, they are frequently exploited in order to articulate the processes of globalisation as monstrous, spectral, cannibalistic. Globalisation itself becomes a gothic manifestation. Globalgothic contains essays from some of the leading scholars in gothic studies as well as offering insights from new scholars in the field. The contributors consider a wide range of different media, including literary texts, film, dance, music, cyberculture, computer games, and graphic novels. This book will be essential reading for all students and academics interested in the gothic, in international literature, cinema, and cyberspace.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
Place of Publication:Manchester, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

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Available through ManchesterHive.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (240 pages) : : illustrations (halftones, black & white).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781526102973, 1526102978, 9781526102980, 1526102986
oclc:on1164786445
LC Classification:PN1995.9.S8
Dewey Decimal:809.38729

Introduction Glennis Byron 1 Theorising globalgothic -- Fred Botting and Justin D. Edwards 2 Butoh: The dance of global darkness -- Steven Bruhm 3 Maori tales of the unexpected: The New Zealand television series Mataku as Indigenous gothic -- Ian Conrich 4 'She saw a soucouyant': Locating the globalgothic -- Justin D. Edwards 5 Globalgothic at the top of the world: Michel Faber's 'The Fahrenheit Twins' -- Sue Zlosnik 6 Online vampire communities: Towards a globalised notion of vampire identity -- Aspasia Stephanou 7 Globalgoth? Unlocatedness in the musical home -- Isabella van Elferen 8 Uncanny games: Michael Haneke's Funny Games and globalisation's new uncanny -- Barry Murnane 9 Pan-Asian gothic -- Colette Balmain 10 Cannibal culture: Serving the people in Fruit Chan's Dumplings -- Glennis Byron 11 Ghost skins: Globalising the supernatural in contemporary Thai horror film. -- Katarzyna Ancuta 12 From Sleepy Hollow to Silent Hill: American gothic to globalgothic -- James Campbell 13 The Dark Knight: Fear, the law and liquid modernity -- Avril Horner 14 Globalzombie: From White Zombie to World War Z -- Fred Botting 15 Globalgothic: Un…