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Gothic Nostalgia


Gothic Nostalgia

The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture
Palgrave Gothic

von: Simon Bacon, Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon

128,39 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 30.01.2024
ISBN/EAN: 9783031438523
Sprache: englisch

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<p>This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory</p>

<p>are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics in</p>

<p>contemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover topics from the spectral to</p>

<p>the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism, <i>Mary Poppins </i>to <i>John Wick</i> to reveal</p>

<p>how the use of an imaginary past to shape the present, creates truly Gothic times that we</p>

<p>can never escape. These ‘hungry ghosts’ from the past find resonance with the Gothic</p>

<p>which speaks equally of a past that often not only haunts the present but will not let it</p>

<p>escape its grasp. This collection will look at the confluence between various kinds of toxic</p>

<p>nostalgia and popular culture to suggest the ways in which contemporary populism has</p>

<p>resurrected ideological monsters from the grave to gorge on the present and any possibility</p>

<p>of change that the future might represent.</p><br><p></p>
<p><b>Acknowledgements.- </b>1.<b>&nbsp;Introduction&nbsp;</b>Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon.- 2<b>.&nbsp;<i>1408</i>&nbsp;and the Structure of Haunting&nbsp;</b>Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.- 3.&nbsp;<b>Toxic Nostalgia in Contemporary&nbsp;Gothic Horror&nbsp;</b>Brandon R. Grafius.- 4.&nbsp;<b>Toxic Nostalgia in the Wake of the Postmodern Turn&nbsp;</b>Matthias Stephan.- &nbsp;5.&nbsp;<b>Deepfake Sockpuppets:&nbsp;The Toxic&nbsp;“Realities”&nbsp;of a Weaponised Internet</b>&nbsp;— Katy Wareham-Morris.- &nbsp;6.&nbsp;<b>The Nostalgia of Setting, Sex and Sound in the Wicker Men Films&nbsp;</b>Lauren Rosewarne.- 7.&nbsp;<b>The American Dream and American Nightmare: The Toxic&nbsp;Pursuit of Nostalgia and Happiness Presented in&nbsp;<i>Poltergeist</i>&nbsp;(1982)&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Poltergeist</i>&nbsp;(2015)&nbsp;</b>Rob Mclaughlin.- 8.&nbsp;<b>“You’re Too Focused on Where You’ve Been”:Uncanny Nostalgia in&nbsp;<i>Mary Poppins Returns</i></b><i>&nbsp;</i>Daniel Kasper.- 9.&nbsp;<b>Pulling Our Strings: The Gothic Nostalgia of&nbsp;Luca Guadagnino’s&nbsp;<i>Suspiria&nbsp;</i></b>J. Simpson.- 10.&nbsp;<b>“I Just Wanted to Preserve It Just as It is”: Gothic Nostalgia in&nbsp;<i>The Watcher&nbsp;</i></b>Abel Fenwick.- 11.&nbsp;<b>Prevention is Better Than Cure: Anachronistic Therapists and Toxic Wellness&nbsp;</b>Catherine Pugh.- 12.<b>Patriarchy Then and Now — with a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s&nbsp;<i>Men</i></b><i>&nbsp;</i>M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh.- 13.&nbsp;<b>“But now, yeah, I’m thinking I’m back”: The All-consuming Gothic Nostalgia in the John Wick Franchise&nbsp;</b>Simon Bacon.- 14.&nbsp;<b>Gothic Nostalgia in Louise Welsh’s&nbsp;<i>The Cutting Room</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>The Second Cut&nbsp;</i></b>Martyn Colebrook.- 15.&nbsp;<b>Toxic Ableism and Gothic Nostalgia in Fanfiction about Mermaids&nbsp;</b>Martine Mussies.- 16.&nbsp;<b>Of Greed and the Undead Past: Rahi Anil Barve’s&nbsp;<i>Tumbbad</i>&nbsp;as an Exercise in Toxic Nostalgia&nbsp;</b>Aparajita Hazra.- 17.&nbsp;<b>Soviet Nostalgia in the Vampire Trilogy&nbsp;<i>A&nbsp;Tale&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Soviet Vampire</i>&nbsp;by Aleksandr Slepakov (2014-18)&nbsp;</b>Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi.- 18.&nbsp;“Oh no. Not again!”: Toxic Nostalgia and Antisemetic Recursive Memory in&nbsp;<i>Ghost Stories.- </i>Vicky Brewster.- 19.&nbsp;<b>Extremist Nostalgia: Mike Ma’s&nbsp;Novellas as 21st Century&nbsp;Far-Right Gothic&nbsp;</b>Helen Young.- <b>Notes on Contributors</b>.</p><p></p>
<p><b>Simon Bacon</b> is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><b>Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon</b> is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in</p>

<p>Poznan, Poland.</p><br>
<p>This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory</p>

<p>are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics in</p>

<p>contemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover topics from the spectral to</p>

<p>the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism, <i>Mary Poppins </i>to <i>John Wick</i> to reveal</p>

<p>how the use of an imaginary past to shape the present, creates truly Gothic times that we</p>

<p>can never escape. These ‘hungry ghosts’ from the past find resonance with the Gothic</p>

<p>which speaks equally of a past that often not only haunts the present but will not let it</p>

<p>escape its grasp. This collection will look at the confluence between various kinds of toxic</p>

<p>nostalgia and popular culture to suggest the ways in which contemporary populism has</p>

<p>resurrected ideological monsters from the grave to gorge on the present and any possibility</p>

<p>of change that the future might represent.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><b>Simon Bacon</b> is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><b>Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon</b> is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in</p>

<p>Poznan, Poland.</p>
Covers topics from the spectral to the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism, Mary Poppins to John Wick Looks at the confluence between various kinds of toxic nostalgia and popular culture Suggests the ways in which contemporary populism has resurrected ideological monsters from the grave

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