Bacon / Bronk-Bacon Gothic Nostalgia

The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-43852-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memoryare used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics incontemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover topics from the spectral to
the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism,
Mary Poppins
to
John Wick
to reveal
how the use of an imaginary past to shape the present, creates truly Gothic times that wecan never escape. These ‘hungry ghosts’ from the past find resonance with the Gothicwhich speaks equally of a past that often not only haunts the present but will not let itescape its grasp. This collection will look at the confluence between various kinds of toxicnostalgia and popular culture to suggest the ways in which contemporary populism hasresurrected ideological monsters from the grave to gorge on the present and any possibilityof change that the future might represent.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacon, Simon

Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.-
1.
 Introduction 
Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon.- 2

. 
1408
 and the Structure of Haunting 

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.- 3. 
Toxic Nostalgia in Contemporary Gothic Horror 
Brandon R. Grafius.- 4. 
Toxic Nostalgia in the Wake of the Postmodern Turn 
Matthias Stephan.-  5. 
Deepfake Sockpuppets: The Toxic “Realities” of a Weaponised Internet
 — Katy Wareham-Morris.-  6. 
The Nostalgia of Setting, Sex and Sound in the Wicker Men Films 
Lauren Rosewarne.- 7. 

The American Dream and American Nightmare: The Toxic Pursuit of Nostalgia and Happiness Presented in 
Poltergeist
 (1982) and 
Poltergeist
 (2015) 

Rob Mclaughlin.- 8. 

“You’re Too Focused on Where You’ve Been”:Uncanny Nostalgia in 
Mary Poppins Returns 
Daniel Kasper.- 9. 

Pulling Our Strings: The Gothic Nostalgia of Luca Guadagnino’s 
Suspiria 
J. Simpson.- 10. 

“I Just Wanted to Preserve It Just as It is”: Gothic Nostalgia in 
The Watcher 
Abel Fenwick.- 11. 
Prevention is Better Than Cure: Anachronistic Therapists and Toxic Wellness 
Catherine Pugh.- 12.

Patriarchy Then and Now — with a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s 
Men 
M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh.- 13. 
“But now, yeah, I’m thinking I’m back”: The All-consuming Gothic Nostalgia in the John Wick Franchise 
Simon Bacon.- 14. 

Gothic Nostalgia in Louise Welsh’s 
The Cutting Room
 and 
The Second Cut 
Martyn Colebrook.- 15. 
Toxic Ableism and Gothic Nostalgia in Fanfiction about Mermaids 
Martine Mussies.- 16. 

Of Greed and the Undead Past: Rahi Anil Barve’s 
Tumbbad
 as an Exercise in Toxic Nostalgia 

Aparajita Hazra.- 17. 

Soviet Nostalgia in the Vampire Trilogy 
A Tale of the Soviet Vampire
 by Aleksandr Slepakov (2014-18) 

Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi.- 18. “Oh no. Not again!”: Toxic Nostalgia and Antisemetic Recursive Memory in 
Ghost Stories.-
Vicky Brewster.- 19. 
Extremist Nostalgia: Mike Ma’s Novellas as 21st Century Far-Right Gothic 
Helen Young.-
Notes on Contributors
.

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Bacon
is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland.
 Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon
is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznan, Poland.