B-Movie Gothic (eBook, PDF)

International Perspectives
Redaktion: Edwards, Justin; Hoglund, Johan

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474423458
• Artikelnr.: 72430125

Autorenporträt

Justin D Edwards is Chair of Gothic Studies at the University of Stirling. He is co-president of the International Gothic Association and the author or co-author of several books, including Grotesque (2013) Mobility at Large (2012), Postcolonial Literature (2008), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005), Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (2003) and Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature (2001). Johan Höglund is Associate Professor of English at Linnaeus University. He is also Director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, member of the board of the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, and of the editorial board of Transtext(e)s Transcultures. He has published extensively on the relationship between imperialism and popular culture as it manifests in a number of different historical and national settings.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Justin D Edwards and Johan Höglund
Section I: America
Chapter One: Its, Blobs and Things: Gothic Beings Out of Time, Justin D
Edwards
Chapter Two: Re-Scripting Blaxploitation Horror: Ganja and Hess and the
Gothic Mode, Maisha Wester
Chapter Three: Alucardas and Alucardos: Vampiric Obsessions, Gothic, and
Mexican Cult Horror Cinema, Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
Chapter Four: Gothic Forests and Mangroves: Ecological Disasters in Zombio
and Mangue Negro, Daniel Serravalle de Sá
Section II: Europe
Chapter Five: Mummies, Vampires, and Doppelgangers: Hammer's B-Movies and
Classic Gothic Fiction, John Edgar Browning
Chapter Six: Fantaterror: Gothic Monsters in the Golden Age of Spanish
B-Movie Horror, 1968-80, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Chapter Seven: Austro-Trash, Class, and the Urban Environment: The Politics
of Das Ding aus der Mur and its Prequel, Michael Fuchs
Chapter Eight: Wither the Present, Wither the Past: The Low Budget Gothic
Horror of Stockholm Syndrome Films, Johan Höglund
Chapter Nine: Turkish B-movie Gothic: Making the Undead Turkish in Ölüler
Konusmaz Ki, Tugçe Biçakçi Syed
Section III: Africa and Asia
Chapter Ten: Filamu ya kutisha: Tanzanian Horror Films as B-Movie Gothic,
Claudia Böhme
Chapter Eleven: Psychopaths and Gothic Lolitas: Japanese B-Movie Gothic in
Gen Takahashi's Goth: Love and Death and Go Ohara's Gothic & Lolita Psycho,
Jimmy D. McRoy
Chapter Twelve: Hong Kong Gothic: Category III Films as Gothic Cinema,
Katarzyna Ancuta
Chapter Thirteen: B is for Bhayanak: Past, Present and Pulp in Bollywood
Gothic, Tabish Khair
Contributors