Globalgothic
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.
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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.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Manchester, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 228 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780719087950, 0719087953
- oclc:ocn828620978
- LC Classification:PN1995.9.S8
- Dewey Decimal:809/.38729
Table of Contents
Introduction / Glennis Byron -- Theorising globalgothic / Fred Botting and Justin D. Edwards -- Butoh : the dance of global darkness / Steven Bruhm -- Maori tales of the unexpected : the New Zealand television series Mataku as indigenous gothic / Ian Conrich -- 'She saw a soucouyant' : locating the globalgothic / Justin D. Edwards -- Globalgothic at the top of the world : Michel Faber's 'The Fahrenheit twins' / Sue Zlosnik -- Online vampire communities : towards a globalised notion of vampire identity / Aspasia Stephanou -- Globalgoth? : unlocatedness in the musical home / Isabella van Elferen -- Uncanny games : Michael Haneke's Funny games and globalisation's new uncanny / Barry Murnane -- Pan-Asian gothic / Colette Balmain -- Cannibal culture : serving the people in Fruit Chan's Dumplings / Glennis Byron -- Ghost skins : globalising the supernatural in contemporary Thai horror film / Katarzyna Ancuta -- From Sleepy hollow to Silent hill : American gothic to globalgothic / James Campbell -- The dark knight : fear, the law and liquid modernity / Avril Horner -- Globalzombie : from White zombie to World war Z / Fred Botting -- Globalgothic : unburying Japanese figurality / Charles …
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