Blake / Unknown / Monnet Neoliberal gothic

International gothic in the neoliberal age
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1345-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: International Gothic Series

A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Blake, Linnie

Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: neoliberal gothic - Linnie Blake and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Part I: Neoliberal gothic monsters
1. Game of fangs: the vampire and neoliberal subjectivity - Aspasia Stephanou
2. Austerity bites: refiguring Dracula in a neoliberal age - Stephanie Genz
3. Staging spectrality: capitalising (on) ghosts in German postdramatic theatre - Barry Murnane
Part II: Biotechnologies, neoliberalism and the gothic
4. The return of the dismembered: Representing organ trafficking in Asian cinemas - Katarzyna Ancuta
5. Catastrophic events and queer northern villages: Zombie pharmacology In the Flesh - Linnie Blake
6. Gothic vulnerability: affect and ethics in fiction from neoliberal South Africa - Rebecca Duncan
Part III: The gothic home and neoliberalism
7. Market value: American Horror Story's housing crisis - Karen E. Macfarlane
8. Haunted by the ghost: from global economics to domestic anxiety in contemporary art practice - Tracy Fahey
Part IV: Crossing borders
9. Gothic meltdown: German nuclear cinema in neoliberal times - Steffen Hantke
10. Border Gothic: Gregory Nava's Bordertown and the dark side of NAFTA - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blake Linnie:
Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film in Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of EnglishLinnie Blake is Head of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Pathway Leader for the MA English: Gothic Studies and Principal Lecturer in Film at Manchester Metropolitan University

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland