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Toxic Nostalgia on Screen examines our understanding of nostalgia and its misuses in the present cultural environment. Twenty original essays show how undead memory has become an embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate the way we live today so that tomorrow is not the future, but a never-ending return to the past.
List of contents
Foreword: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time: Undead Memory and the Return to the Return of the Repressed
Steffen Hantke
Introduction
Simon Bacon
Prologue: Pathological Nostalgia
Theresa Porter
Part I: Configuring the Undead Present
Chapter One: "Chasing spies-so old-fashioned!": Toxic Nostalgia and the Undying Past in Sam Mendes'
Skyfall (2012)
Katharina Rein
Chapter Two: "Have Changed Their Faces": Capitalism, Celebrity and the Undead Memory of the Consumerist Masses
Andrew M. Boylan
Chapter Three: Gothic Memory and Dark Nostalgia in Lifetime's
Flowers in the Attic (2014)
Miranda Corcoran
Chapter Four: Spectral Visitation: Representations of Ghosts, Evil and Benign, in Contemporary Gothic Fiction
Paulina Palmer
Part II: Undead Religion
Chapter Five: Religion and the Gothic Memory: Toxic Excuses for the Past
Brandon Grafius
Chapter Six: Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror Films
Mo Moshaty
Chapter Seven: The Unholy Fusion of Reproductive Futurism and Toxic Nostalgia in
Immaculate and
The First OmenSophie Aimée Ahlemeyer and Reece Goodall
Part III: The Undying Past in America
Chapter Eight: "You don't know what those monsters can do": Reexamining Genre and Resisting Representation in
American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016)
Kathleen Hudson
Chapter Nine: "I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom": Disrupting Intergenerational Trauma in
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Cathleen Allyn Conway
Chapter Ten: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman: Black Bodies, Black Stories, and Evolving Perspectives in the Supernatural Slasher
Aksel Dadswell
Chapter Eleven: The Wounds of Racism: Traumatic Affect in
Lovecraft CountryMatthias du Bondt
Part IV: Undead Colonialism
Chapter Twelve: Undead Usurpers: The Metaphorical Terror at the Heart of
KingdomLyz Reblin-Renshaw
Chapter Thirteen:
Frankenstein in Baghdad Martyn James Colebrook
Chapter Fourteen:
Mujeres juntas, marabunta: La Llorona and La Tulivieja, Contesting Patriarchal the Stronghold in Latin American Horror
Valeria Villegas Lindvall
Chapter Fifteen: Zombie Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Tech-Utopia in Don Delillo's Late Fiction
John Conlan
Part V: Undead Memory in Undying Futures
Chapter Sixteen: We Have Always Lived in the Bunker: Toxic Nostalgia in the Post-Traumatic Culture of
Attack on TitanCristina Diamant
Chapter Seventeen: User Not Found: The Trauma Virus in
Unfriended and
The DenDuncan Hubber
Chapter Eighteen: "The Circuit complete, I drain him": The Memory of Monsters in "The Stainless Steel Leach"
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
About the author
Edited by Simon Bacon - Contributions by Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer; Simon Bacon; Andrew M. Boylan; John Conlan; Cathleen Allyn Conway; Miranda Corcoran; Aksel Dadswell; Matthias De Bondt; Cristina Diamant; Reece Goodall; Brandon R. Grafius; Steffen Hantke; D
