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This essay examines the film version of World War Z as a key text for exploring the current transition from a localised siege narrative to an international kind of ‘road trip’ movie, a shift largely tied to the popularity of zombie-themed videogames. Keywords: zombie, Gothic, uncanny, September 11, World War Z
Sep 13, 2013 · Summary. American Gothic fiction has only recently been considered worthy of serious study. Before Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), such works were greatly deemphasized within the assumptions of New Criticism, “Old” Historicism, the History of Ideas, and the theories of literature and culture underpinning those ...
The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even greater singularity. This book provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition, starting with… Expand
May 28, 2006 · Summary. From the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth century and the beginnings of a distinctive American literature, the Gothic has stubbornly flourished in the United States. Its cultural role, though, has been entirely paradoxical: an optimistic country founded upon the Enlightenment principles of liberty and “the pursuit of ...
- Eric Savoy
- 2002
This introduction defines American gothic historically, thematically, and conceptually, and traces the history of the cultural analysis of the American gothic. It suggests that the definitions of America and those of gothic are so closely related as to be inseparable.
Responsibility Kyle William Bishop ; foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle. Imprint Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010. Physical description vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Jun 1, 2005 · PDF | On Jun 1, 2005, Agnieszka M. Soltysik published The uses of the American Gothic: The politics of a critical term in post-war American literary criticism | Find, read and cite all the...
