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1 online resource (314 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-301) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : "Evil lurks in California" -- 1. "What happened a hundred years ago is happening again!" The ghosts of the California past -- 2. The dark side of the "good life" : California and the birth of modern horror -- 3. "Sunshine isn't enough" : Hollywood gothic origins -- 4. Fallen stars in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) -- 5. "It's a gateway part!" Twenty-first century Hollywood gothic -- 6. Cult nightmares in Our Lady of Darkness (1977) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) -- 7. The usual utopian vision : Contemporary cult California in The Invitation (2015), 1BR (2019) and The Circle (2013) -- Conclusion : "It's our time now" : Us (2019) and Desierto (2015). |
| Summary |
"This book positions the California Gothic as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specific to the historical, cultural and geographical characteristics of the Golden State. California has long been perceived as a utopian space, but it is also haunted by the spectres of European and Anglo-American imperialism, genocide, racial and economic discrimination, natural disaster and aggressive infrastructural and commercial development. Drawing on the work of California historians and cultural commentators, this study explores the ways in which the nightmarish flipside of the California Dream has been depicted within horror and Gothic."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film and was recently academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Bernice was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2017. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American. |
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Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Horror films. |
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United States. |
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California -- In literature.
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California. |
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California -- In motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production. |
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Literature. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murphy, Bernice M. California gothic in fiction and film. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] 1474497861 (OCoLC)1298384581 |
| ISBN |
9781474497886 webready PDF |
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1474497888 webready PDF |
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9781474497893 epub |
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1474497896 epub |
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9781474497862 hardback |
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1474497861 hardback |
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