Bloomsbury Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors – serie
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4 produkter
4 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
996 kr
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Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past – both personal and historical – is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing ‘haunts’ real events.With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
349 kr
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Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past – both personal and historical – is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing ‘haunts’ real events.With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 651 kr
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An exploration of works that sit at the nexus of archaeology and horror, this collection brings together critical reflections on these ‘uncanny archaeologies’ as they appear across film, media, literature and ‘real’ spooky archaeology. With a global selection of authors drawing upon a wide variety of analytical concepts from posthumanism and ‘weirding’ to elements of mad studies, and the notion of ‘archaeophobia’, the collection promotes novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks for studying the works explored.A treasure trove of themes from across archaeological horror, the essays in this volume include mainstays of the genre such as ancient curses, empty tombs, and ambulant mummies, as well as broader themes such as the underground, deep time, folk horror, time-slips, and the return of the dead. Interdisciplinary and multi modal, the essays cover a huge range of works: fiction by M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Conan Doyle; films and franchises including Tomb Raider and the Blair Witch Project; cultural phenomena such as Weird Tales, black metal, and Victorian occult sex magic; and ‘real life’ archaeological horrors from cursed objects to uncanny bodies, and magical treasure hunting. Lifting the lid on a popular new horror sub-genre, Uncanny Archaeology uncovers a field that is open, inclusive, and playful.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 398 kr
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An exploration of how contemporary horror films focusing on the internet engage with society’s material, functional and ideological reorientation to new digital realities, this book shows how subjects can resist the age of data capitalism and the authority of the algorithm. Upending the notion that the horror genre – arguably the seismograph of cultural unease – has remained unresponsive to the unprecedented dangers of the digital age, The Post-Internet Horror Film illustrates how the genre tackles the (un)representability of ubiquitous computing. With consideration of how ‘smart’ technologies and interconnectedness of all computing devises via the web destabilise conceptions of the internet, Max Jokschus examines to what extent contemporary internet horror films contribute to fostering awareness of the internet’s political economy – and how they, indeed, obscure it.Detailing a new phenomenon that will only become more urgent with time, and calling upon data-capitalism criticism, Jokschus provides a systemic analysis of this emerging genre, its semiotics, affects and ideologies. Breaking the genre down into first and second-wave internet horror cycles and covering themes ‘cyberphobia’, ‘datanoia’ and the dark web, the book makes case studies of such films as Strangeland (1999), Pulse (2001), The Lawnmower Man (1992), Chatroom (2010), Cyberbully (2015), Girl House (2016), Bedeviled (2016), Child’s Play (2019), Countdown (2018), Selfie From Hell (2018), and Dark Web: Descent into Hell (2021). Offering new ways to think, write and teach about the horror film, as well as modelling how critical internet studies and film studies can expand each other’s insights, The Post-Internet Horror Film explores a new kind of scary but also avenues for user agency and resistance.