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Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the present world. Here in our modern time, undead memory is not just a remembrance of the past that is visited upon the present with negative implications, but the 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Part I: Configuring the Undead Present
- Chapter 1: “Chasing Spies—So Old-Fashioned!”: Toxic Nostalgia and the Undying Past in Sam Mendes’s Skyfall (2012)
- Chapter 2: “They Have Changed Their Faces”: Capitalism, Celebrity and the Undead Memory of the Consumerist Masses
- Chapter 3: Gothic Memory and Dark Nostalgia in Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic (2014)
- Chapter 4: Spectral Visitation: Representations of Ghosts, Evil and Benign, in Contemporary Gothic Fiction
- Part II: Undead Religion
- Chapter 5: Religion and the Gothic Memory: Toxic Excuses for the Past
- Chapter 6: Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror Films
- Chapter 7: The Unholy Fusion of Reproductive Futurism and Toxic Nostalgia in Immaculate and The First Omen
- Part III: The Undying Past in America
- Chapter 8: “You Don’t Know What Those Monsters Can Do”: Reexamining Genre and Resisting Representation in American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016)
- Chapter 9: “I Wanted to Pit Dracula Against My Mom”: Disrupting Intergenerational Trauma in The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
- Chapter 10: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman: Black Bodies, Black Stories, and Evolving Perspectives in the Supernatural Slasher
- Chapter 11: The Wounds of Racism: Traumatic Affect in Lovecraft Country
- Part IV: Undead Colonialism
- Chapter 12: Undead Usurpers: The Metaphorical Terror at the Heart of Kingdom
- Chapter 13: Frankenstein in Baghdad
- Chapter 14: Mujeres Juntas, Marabunta: La Llorona and La Tulivieja, Contesting the Patriarchal Stronghold in Latin American Ho ror
- Chapter 15: Undead Optimism/Undying Bodies: From Precarity to Infinity in DeLillo’s Recent Work
- Part V: Undead Memory in Undying Futures
- Chapter 16: We Have Always Lived in the Bunker: Toxic Nostalgia in the Post-Traumatic Culture of Attack on Titan
- Chapter 17: User Not Found: The Trauma Virus in Unfriended and The Den
- Chapter 18: “The Circuit Complete, I Drain Him”: The Cultural Memory of Monsters in “The Stainless Steel Leach”
- Index
- About the Contributors