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An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this book explores the undead and unholy in literature, film, television, and popular culture. Following an introduction to frightful manifestations in media, sections address ghosts, vampires, and monsters individually, and each section includes a broad consideration of the ghost, vampire or monster in American culture.
The section dedicated to ghosts examines the "spectral turn" of popular culture and the ghost's relation to justice and mourning, with particular attention to Toni Morrison and Herman Melville. In the vampires section, the author considers the undead bloodsucker's relationship to anti-Semitism, suicide, and cinema. The third section discusses monsters in relation to topics such as global pandemics, terrorism, mass shootings, "stranger danger," and social otherness, with attention to a range of popular culture texts including the films IT and It Follows.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Monstrous Musings
Act I: Ghosts
The American Ghost Story
Introduction: The Spectral Turn
Doing Justice to Bartleby
Ten Minutes for Seven Letters: Reading Beloved's Epitaph
Act II: Vampires
American Vampires
The Vampire Cinema
Circumcising Dracula
Vampire Suicide
Act III: Monsters
American Monsters
Introduction: A Genealogy of Monster Theory
Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture
What Is IT? Ambient Dread and Modern Paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014), and It Comes at Night (2017)
Index
