Neoliberal Gothic - International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age

A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe.

List of contents

Introduction: neoliberal gothic - Linnie Blake and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Part I: Neoliberal gothic monsters
1. Game of fangs: the vampire and neoliberal subjectivity - Aspasia Stephanou
2. Austerity bites: refiguring Dracula in a neoliberal age - Stephanie Genz
3. Staging spectrality: capitalising (on) ghosts in German postdramatic theatre - Barry Murnane
Part II: Biotechnologies, neoliberalism and the gothic
4. The return of the dismembered: representing organ trafficking in Asian cinemas - Katarzyna Ancuta
5. Catastrophic events and queer northern villages: zombie pharmacology In the Flesh - Linnie Blake
6. Gothic vulnerability: affect and ethics in fiction from neoliberal South Africa - Rebecca Duncan
Part III: The gothic home and neoliberalism
7. Market value: American Horror Story's housing crisis - Karen E. Macfarlane
8. Haunted by the ghost: from global economics to domestic anxiety in contemporary art practice - Tracy Fahey
Part IV: Crossing borders
9. Gothic meltdown: German nuclear cinema in neoliberal times - Steffen Hantke
10. Border gothic: Gregory Nava's Bordertown and the dark side of NAFTA - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Index

About the author

Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film in Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of English

Summary

A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Linnie Blake, Linnie Monnet Blake
• Assisted by: Linnie Blake (Editor), Blake Linnie (Editor), Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (Editor), Monnet Agnieszka Soltysik (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781526139467
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3946-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: International Gothic Series; International Gothic Mup; International Gothic Series; International Gothic Mup
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Film, TV & radio, Literary studies: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies