Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film - Transnational Perspectives

This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Gothic Tradition Illuminated on Screen; 2. Grief Encounters: Ghost Narratives; 3. Folk in Hell: Rurality in Transition; 4. Vampire Gothic as Post- Exotic Gloom; 5. Shock and Awe: Cosmic Horror as Existential Crisis; 6. De-composmolitanism: Zombie Horror as Apocalypse; Coda; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Keith McDonald holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London, and is a senior lecturer of film studies and media at York St John University, UK.

Wayne Johnson is a senior lecturer in media and film studies at York St. John University. He received his PhD from Keele University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Johnson Wayne, McDonald Keith
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9781839996405
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-640-5
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; art, ART / Film & Video, LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Digital, video and new media arts, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Folklore studies / Study of myth