Murphy The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture

Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-35372-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 257 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: We're Not Out of the Woods Yet 1. The Cabin in the Woods: Order versus Chaos in the 'New World' 2. 'We are But a Little Way in the Forest Yet': The Community in the Wilderness 3. 'Going Windigo': 'Civilisation' and 'Savagery' on the New Frontier 4. Backwoods Nightmares: The Rural Poor as Monstrous Other 5. 'Why Wouldn't the Wilderness Fight Us?' Eco-horror and the Apocalypse Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bernice M. Murphy is Lecturer in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Publications include The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009),  (2013) and the collections Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy (2005) and (with Darryl Jones and Elizabeth McCarthy) It Came From the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (2011).