California Gothic in Fiction and Film

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvBernice M. Murphy

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This book positions the ‘California Gothic’ as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specific to the historical, cultural and geographical characteristics of the ‘Golden State’. California has long been perceived as a utopian space, but it is also haunted by the spectres of European and Anglo-American imperialism, genocide, racial and economic discrimination, natural disaster and aggressive infrastructural and commercial development. Drawing on the work of California historians and cultural commentators, this study explores the ways in which the nightmarish flipside of the ‘California Dream’ has been depicted within horror and Gothic.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-04
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt632 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474497862

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: ‘Evil Lurks in California’ Part 1: Foundational Horrors1. ‘What Happened a Hundred Years Ago is Happening Again!’ The Ghosts of the California Past2. The Dark Side of the ‘Good Life’: California and the Birth of Modern HorrorPart 2: Hollywood Gothic3. ‘Sunshine is Never Enough’: Hollywood Gothic Origins4. Fallen Stars in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)5. ‘It’s a Gateway Part!’ Twenty-First Century Hollywood GothicPart 3: Cult California: New Gods and New Selves6. Cult Nightmares in Our Lady of Darkness (1977) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)7. ‘The Usual Utopian Vision: Contemporary Cult California in The Invitation (2015), 1BR (2019) and The Circle (2013)Conclusion:8. ‘It’s Our Time Now’: Us (2019) and Desierto (2015)Index

California Gothic is a brilliant, insightful and richly historical book, one that will jolt you into awareness of the glaring omission (until now) of California from the American Gothic. It offers figures that take their rightful place in the Gothic canon – the ‘Fallen Star’ of the ’Hollywood Gothic’ and the ‘California Cult’ – and delivers the most innovative intervention into Gothic criticism in years.