Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film
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Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film

Transnational Perspectives

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film

Transnational Perspectives

About this book

This book looks at contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach. With a focus on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic, the study invokes its literary as well as filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed strands of the modern filmic Gothic: the ghost narrative, folk horror, the vampire movie, cosmic horror and, finally, the zombie film. In recent years, the concept of transnationalism has 'trans'-cended its original boundaries, perhaps excessively in the minds of some. Originally defined in the wake of the rise of globalisation in the 1990s, as a way to study cinema beyond national boundaries, where the look and the story of a film reflected the input of more than one nation, or region, or culture. It was considered too confining to study national cinemas in an age of internationalization, witnessing the fusions of cultures, and post-colonialism, exile and diasporas. The concept allows us to appreciate the broader range of forces from a wider international perspective while at the same time also engaging with concepts of nationalism, identity and an acknowledgement of cinema itself.

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Information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781785277733
eBook ISBN
9781785277757

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 The Gothic Tradition Illuminated on Screen
  10. Chapter 2 Grief Encounters: Ghost Narratives
  11. Chapter 3 Folk in Hell: Rurality in Transition
  12. Chapter 4 Vampire Gothic as Post-Exotic Gloom
  13. Chapter 5 Shock and Awe: Cosmic Horror as Existential Crisis
  14. Chapter 6 De-composmolitanism: Zombie Horror as Apocalypse
  15. Coda
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index