Monstrous media/spectral subjects: Imaging gothic fictions from the nineteenth century to the present
Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner
Abstract
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects explores Gothic, monstrosity, spectrality and media forms and technologies (music, fiction's engagements with photography/ cinema, film, magic practice and new media) from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Placing Gothic forms and productions in an explicitly interdisciplinary context, it investigates how the engagement with technologies drives the dissemination of Gothic across diverse media through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while conjuring all kinds of haunting and spectral presences that trouble cultural narratives of progress ... More
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects explores Gothic, monstrosity, spectrality and media forms and technologies (music, fiction's engagements with photography/ cinema, film, magic practice and new media) from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Placing Gothic forms and productions in an explicitly interdisciplinary context, it investigates how the engagement with technologies drives the dissemination of Gothic across diverse media through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while conjuring all kinds of haunting and spectral presences that trouble cultural narratives of progress and technological advancement.
Keywords:
Gothic,
Monstrosity,
Spectrality,
Media,
Technology,
Haunting,
Gothic film,
Gothic music,
Gothic literature,
New media
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780719089770 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2016 |
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719089770.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Fred Botting, editor
Kingston University
Catherine Spooner, editor
Lancaster University
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