BOOKS - Twenty-First-Century Gothic
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677411
677411
Twenty-First-Century Gothic
Author: Maisha Wester
Year: 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.5 MB
Language: English
Year: 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.5 MB
Language: English
A transnational and transmedia companion to the post millennial GothicCovers key areas and themes of the post millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConstitutes 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 mythosThis 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