Globalgothic

Informationen zum Autor Glennis Byron is Professor of English at the University of Stirling Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Glennis Byron1. Theorising globalgothic - Fred Botting and Justin D. Edwards2. Butoh: The dance of global darkness - Steven Bruhm3. Maori tales of the unexpected: The New Zealand television series Mataku as Indigenous gothic - Ian Conrich4. 'She saw a soucouyant': Locating the globalgothic - Justin D. Edwards5. Globalgothic at the top of the world: Michel Faber's 'The Fahrenheit Twins' - Sue Zlosnik6. Online vampire communities: Towards a globalised notion of vampire identity - Aspasia Stephanou7. Globalgoth? Unlocatedness in the musical home - Isabella van Elferen8. Uncanny games: Michael Haneke's Funny Games and globalisation's new uncanny - Barry Murnane9. Pan-Asian gothic - Colette Balmain10. Cannibal culture: serving the people in Fruit Chan's Dumplings - Glennis Byron11. Ghost skins: Globalising the supernatural in contemporary Thai horror film. - Katarzyna Ancuta12. From Sleepy Hollow to Silent Hill : American gothic to globalgothic - James Campbell13. The Dark Knight : Fear, the law and liquid modernity - Avril Horner14. Globalzombie: From White Zombie to World War Z - Fred Botting15. Globalgothic: Unburying Japanese figurality - Charles Shiro InouyeIndex...

Product details

• Authors: Glennis Byron
• Assisted by: Byron Glennis (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781526106902
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0690-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: International Gothic Series; International Gothic Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Theory of art, English, ART / Criticism & Theory, Films, cinema, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form