Toxic Nostalgia on Screen

Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century

AvSimon Bacon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Research in Horror Studies

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Beskrivning

Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the present world. Here in our modern time, undead memory is not just a remembrance of the past that is visited upon the present with negative implications, but the embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate the way we live today so that tomorrow is not the future, but a never-ending return to the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Research in Horror Studies
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666935608
Utmärkelser:Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2025 (United States)

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Mer om författaren

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar, author, and film critic based in Poznan, Poland.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time: Undead Memory and the Return to the Return of the RepressedSteffen HantkeIntroductionSimon BaconPrologue: Pathological NostalgiaTheresa Porter Part I: Configuring the Undead PresentChapter One: “Chasing spies—so old-fashioned!”: Toxic Nostalgia and the Undying Past in Sam Mendes’ Skyfall (2012)Katharina ReinChapter Two: “Have Changed Their Faces”: Capitalism, Celebrity and the Undead Memory of the Consumerist MassesAndrew M. BoylanChapter Three: Gothic Memory and Dark Nostalgia in Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic (2014)Miranda CorcoranChapter Four: Spectral Visitation: Representations of Ghosts, Evil and Benign, in Contemporary Gothic FictionPaulina PalmerPart II: Undead ReligionChapter Five: Religion and the Gothic Memory: Toxic Excuses for the Past Brandon GrafiusChapter Six: Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror FilmsMo MoshatyChapter Seven: The Unholy Fusion of Reproductive Futurism and Toxic Nostalgia in Immaculate and The First OmenSophie Aimée Ahlemeyer and Reece GoodallPart III: The Undying Past in AmericaChapter Eight: “You don’t know what those monsters can do”: Reexamining Genre and Resisting Representation in American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016)Kathleen HudsonChapter Nine: “I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom”: Disrupting Intergenerational Trauma in The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires Cathleen Allyn ConwayChapter Ten: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman: Black Bodies, Black Stories, and Evolving Perspectives in the Supernatural SlasherAksel DadswellChapter Eleven: The Wounds of Racism: Traumatic Affect in Lovecraft CountryMatthias du BondtPart IV: Undead ColonialismChapter Twelve: Undead Usurpers: The Metaphorical Terror at the Heart of KingdomLyz Reblin-Renshaw Chapter Thirteen: Frankenstein in Baghdad Martyn James ColebrookChapter Fourteen: Mujeres juntas, marabunta: La Llorona and La Tulivieja, Contesting Patriarchal the Stronghold in Latin American HorrorValeria Villegas LindvallChapter Fifteen: Zombie Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Tech-Utopia in Don Delillo’s Late FictionJohn ConlanPart V: Undead Memory in Undying FuturesChapter Sixteen: We Have Always Lived in the Bunker: Toxic Nostalgia in the Post-Traumatic Culture of Attack on TitanCristina DiamantChapter Seventeen: User Not Found: The Trauma Virus in Unfriended and The DenDuncan HubberChapter Eighteen: “The Circuit complete, I drain him”: The Memory of Monsters in “The Stainless Steel Leach”Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.