The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road Through the Wall , Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade, including I Am Legend , Bewitched , Halloween and Desperate Housewives .
Autorentext
BERNICE M. MURPHY is Lecturer in Popular Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She edited the collection Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy (2005) and is co-founder/editor of the online Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.
Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction: Welcome to Disturbia The House Down the Street: The Suburban Gothic in Shirley Jackson and Richard Matheson Conjure Wife: The Suburban Witch Aliens, Androids and Zombies: Dehumanisation and the Suburban Gothic 'You Son of a Bitch! You Only Moved the Headstones!': Haunted Suburbia Don't Go Down To The Basement!: Serial Murder, Family Values and the Suburban Horror Film 'Ah, But Underneath': Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Desperate Housewives Conclusion: The End of Suburbia? Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
Titel
The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture
Autor
EAN
9780230244757
ISBN
978-0-230-24475-7
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
21.08.2009
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.81 MB
Anzahl Seiten
236
Jahr
2009
Untertitel
Englisch
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