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Informationen zum Autor Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Literature, and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University Klappentext A necessary and timely study of Barker's influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker's creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (1984-85) to The Scarlet Gospels (2015). Zusammenfassung A necessary and timely study of Barker’s influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker’s creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (1984–85) to The Scarlet Gospels (2015). -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'To darken the day and brighten the night': Clive Barker, dark imaginer - Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Part I: Origins 1 'Visions of another Albion': the Books of Blood and the horror of 1980s Britain - Darryl Jones2 'Marks of weakness, marks of woe': the Books of Blood and the transformation of the weird - Kevin Corstorphine3 When fantasy becomes reality: social commentary of 1980s Britain in Clive Barker's Weaveworld - Edward Timothy Wallington Part II: Screening Barker 4 The joyless magic of Lord of Illusions - Harvey O'Brien5 Drawing (to) fear and horror: into the frame of Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train and Dread comic and film adaptations - Bernard Perron6 Beauty, pain and desire: gothic aesthetics and feminine identification in the filmic adaptations of Clive Barker - Brigid Cherry Part III: Labyrinths of desire 7 Clive Barker's queer monsters: exploring transgression, sexuality and the other - Mark Richard Adams8 Breaking through the canvas: towards a definition of (meta)cultural blackness in the fantasies of Clive Barker - Tony M. Vinci9 'A far more physical experience than the cinema affords': Clive Barker's Halloween Horror Nights and brand authorship - Gareth James Part IV: Legacy 10 'What price wonderland?': Clive Barker and the spectre of realism - Daragh Downes11 Clive Barker's late (anti-)horror fiction: Tortured Souls and Mister B. Gone 's new myths of the flesh - Xavier Aldana Reyes12 The Devil and Clive Barker: Faustian bargains and gothic filigree - Sorcha Ní FhlainnIndex...
