B-Movie Gothic

Justin D Edwards is Chair of Gothic Studies at the University of Stirling. He is co-president of the International Gothic Association and the author or co-author of several books, including Grotesque (2013) Mobility at Large (2012), Postcolonial Literature (2008), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005), Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (2003) and Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature (2001). Johan Höglund is Associate Professor of English at Linnaeus University. He is also Director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, member of the board of the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, and of the editorial board of Transtext(e)s Transcultures. He has published extensively on the relationship between imperialism and popular culture as it manifests in a number of different historical and national settings.

This book takes head-on the complex question of the relationship between Gothic as a Western-origin art form and the rise of indigenous film of the supernatural and the eerie across cultures and continents. Its focus on the B-movie is adeptly handled by a variety of distinguished critics, raising important questions about internationalisation and local development. There are many dark gems revealed here, and expertly and engagingly discussed.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Justin D Edwards and Johan Höglund Section I: AmericaChapter One: Its, Blobs and Things: Gothic Beings Out of Time, Justin D Edwards Chapter Two: Re-Scripting Blaxploitation Horror: Ganja and Hess and the Gothic Mode, Maisha WesterChapter Three: Alucardas and Alucardos: Vampiric Obsessions, Gothic, and Mexican Cult Horror Cinema, Enrique Ajuria IbarraChapter Four: Gothic Forests and Mangroves: Ecological Disasters in Zombio and Mangue Negro, Daniel Serravalle de Sá　Section II: EuropeChapter Five: Mummies, Vampires, and Doppelgangers: Hammer’s B-Movies and Classic Gothic Fiction, John Edgar BrowningChapter Six: Fantaterror: Gothic Monsters in the Golden Age of Spanish B-Movie Horror, 1968-80, Xavier Aldana ReyesChapter Seven: Austro-Trash, Class, and the Urban Environment: The Politics of Das Ding aus der Mur and its Prequel, Michael FuchsChapter Eight: Wither the Present, Wither the Past: The Low Budget Gothic Horror of Stockholm Syndrome Films, Johan HöglundChapter Nine: Turkish B-movie Gothic: Making the Undead Turkish in Ölüler Konuşmaz Ki, Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed　Section III: Africa and AsiaChapter Ten: Filamu ya kutisha: Tanzanian Horror Films as B-Movie Gothic, Claudia BöhmeChapter Eleven: Psychopaths and Gothic Lolitas: Japanese B-Movie Gothic in Gen Takahashi’s Goth: Love and Death and Go Ohara’s Gothic & Lolita Psycho, Jimmy D. McRoyChapter Twelve: Hong Kong Gothic: Category III Films as Gothic Cinema, Katarzyna AncutaChapter Thirteen: B is for Bhayanak: Past, Present and Pulp in Bollywood Gothic, Tabish Khair　Contributors