UID:
almahu_9949385425902882
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780367713065
,
0367713063
,
9781000531657
,
1000531651
,
9781000531619
,
1000531619
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in speculative fiction
Content:
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft's influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following lines: Adaptation of Lovecraft's legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, and game artwork The connection between the writer's legacy and his life Considering capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene when reading Lovecraft How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft's fiction. Reading Lovecraft's fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality
Note:
IntroductionAntonio Alcala Gonzalez and Carl H. SederholmLovecraft and the Stage: A Recent (Re)DiscoveryKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO's True Detective (2014)Elisabete LopesAn Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian cinema, 1975-2016Lúcio Reis Filho and Sheila SchvarzmanThe Masks of E'ch-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H. P. LovecraftJohn Glover"It's like a maze you can't see": Comics Cryptomimesis of Lovecraft and the Lovecraftian in Alan Moore's Neonomicon (2004-2005) and Providence (2015-2017)Stuart L. LindsayMan or Cartoon: H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics CharacterTom ShapiraDrawing the Unknowable - Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror in Magic: The Gathering and HearthstoneSuzanne Albary and Richard AlbaryNuclear Inhumanities: H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and the Dread of ContaminationIan FettersAn Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu MythosDaniel DoncelLovecraft's Viral Networks: A Contaminated Ethics for the ChthuluceneNatasha Rebry Coulthard"It Was the Vegetation": Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in The Fiction of H. P. LovecraftFredrik BlancNautical Horror and the Anthropocene: Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank'sUnderwaterAntonio Alcala GonzalezRacial (in)visibility, cosmic indifference: Reimagining H. P. Lovecraft's legacy in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)Kathleen HudsonFinding "Something and Not Nothing:" Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st CenturyLoren BarbourThe Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and "Dungeon Crawler" VideogamesKevin Corstorphine and Matt CroftsDreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive MediaEoin Murray"Bringing ... Uncertain Geographies Under ... Control"? Exploring the Lovecraftian 'Walking Simulator'David SimmonsQueering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft's Monstrous OthersNowell MarshallWeird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, M/M Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin SeriesBrian JohnsonLovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of UnthinkabilityMichael CerlianoFalling into the Void: "Nyarlathotep"Carl H. Sederholm
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367713065
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