Toxic Nostalgia on Screen

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

• 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.