Format:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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illustrations (halftones, black & white); digital, PDF file(s)
Edition:
Reproduktion Manchester, UK Manchester University Press
ISBN:
9781526102973
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9781526102980
Series Statement:
Manchester Gothic
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
'˜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
Content:
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: Unburying Japanese figurality - Charles Shiro Inouye; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719087950
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781526106902
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719087950
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Byron, Glennis Globalgothic ISBN 9780719087950
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526102973
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