The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the Gothic across literature, film, and cyberspace, revealing how it has proliferated since 1900 as an expression of modernity. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology; Part I. The Gothic and Modernity: 1. Introduction: modernity and the
proliferation of Gothic Jerrold E. Hogle; 2. Modernist Gothic John Paul
Riquelme; 3. Contemporary Gothic and the law Susan Chaplin; Part II. The Gothic
and the Modern Body: 4. Gothic configurations of gender Avril Horner and Sue
Zlosnik; 5. The 'queer limits' in the modern Gothic E. L. McCallum; 6. Teen
Gothic Glennis Byron and Sharon Deans; Part III. The Gothic and Modern Media: 7.
Cinema of the Gothic extreme Elisabeth Bronfen; 8. American film noir Charles
Scruggs; 9. Technogothics of the early twenty-first century Isabella Van
Elferen; Part IV. Multi-cultural and Global Gothic: 10. Gothic and the politics
of race Maisha L. Wester; 11. The Gothic in North American 'subcultures' Carlos
Gallego; 12. The postcolonial Gothic Ken Gelder; 13. Asian Gothic Katarzyna
Ancuta; 14. The Gothic and magical realism Lucie Armitt; Guide to further
reading; Guide to further viewing.