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Product details:
- Edition number 1st ed. 2024
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 31 January 2024
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031438516
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Weight 565 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black & white; 3 Illustrations, color 583
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Short description:
This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory
are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics in
contemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover topics from the spectral to
the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism, Mary Poppins to John Wick to reveal
how the use of an imaginary past to shape the present, creates truly Gothic times that we
can never escape. These ?hungry ghosts? from the past find resonance with the Gothic
which speaks equally of a past that often not only haunts the present but will not let it
escape its grasp. This collection will look at the confluence between various kinds of toxic
nostalgia and popular culture to suggest the ways in which contemporary populism has
resurrected ideological monsters from the grave to gorge on the present and any possibility
of change that the future might represent.
Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland.
Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznan, Poland.
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This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory
are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics in
contemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover topics from the spectral to
the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism, Mary Poppins to John Wick to reveal
how the use of an imaginary past to shape the present, creates truly Gothic times that we
can never escape. These ?hungry ghosts? from the past find resonance with the Gothic
which speaks equally of a past that often not only haunts the present but will not let it
escape its grasp. This collection will look at the confluence between various kinds of toxic
nostalgia and popular culture to suggest the ways in which contemporary populism has
resurrected ideological monsters from the grave to gorge on the present and any possibility
of change that the future might represent.
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon.- 2. 1408 and the Structure of Haunting Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.- 3. Toxic Nostalgia in Contemporary Gothic Horror Brandon R. Grafius.- 4. Toxic Nostalgia in the Wake of the Postmodern Turn Matthias Stephan.- 5. Deepfake Sockpuppets: The Toxic ?Realities? of a Weaponised Internet ? Katy Wareham-Morris.- 6. The Nostalgia of Setting, Sex and Sound in the Wicker Men Films Lauren Rosewarne.- 7. The American Dream and American Nightmare: The Toxic Pursuit of Nostalgia and Happiness Presented in Poltergeist (1982) and Poltergeist (2015) Rob Mclaughlin.- 8. ?You?re Too Focused on Where You?ve Been?:Uncanny Nostalgia in Mary Poppins Returns Daniel Kasper.- 9. Pulling Our Strings: The Gothic Nostalgia of Luca Guadagnino?s Suspiria J. Simpson.- 10. ?I Just Wanted to Preserve It Just as It is?: Gothic Nostalgia in The Watcher Abel Fenwick.- 11. Prevention is Better Than Cure: Anachronistic Therapists and Toxic Wellness Catherine Pugh.- 12.Patriarchy Then and Now ? with a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland?s Men M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh.- 13. ?But now, yeah, I?m thinking I?m back?: The All-consuming Gothic Nostalgia in the John Wick Franchise Simon Bacon.- 14. Gothic Nostalgia in Louise Welsh?s The Cutting Room and The Second Cut Martyn Colebrook.- 15. Toxic Ableism and Gothic Nostalgia in Fanfiction about Mermaids Martine Mussies.- 16. Of Greed and the Undead Past: Rahi Anil Barve?s Tumbbad as an Exercise in Toxic Nostalgia Aparajita Hazra.- 17. Soviet Nostalgia in the Vampire Trilogy A Tale of the Soviet Vampire by Aleksandr Slepakov (2014-18) Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi.- 18. ?Oh no. Not again!?: Toxic Nostalgia and Antisemetic Recursive Memory in Ghost Stories.- Vicky Brewster.- 19. Extremist Nostalgia: Mike Ma?s Novellas as 21st Century Far-Right Gothic Helen Young.- Notes on Contributors.
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