Full Description
Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the present world. Here in our modern time, undead memory is not just a remembrance of the past that is visited upon the present with negative implications, but the embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate the way we live today so that tomorrow is not the future, but a never-ending return to the past.
Contents
Foreword: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time: Undead Memory and the Return to the Return of the Repressed
Steffen Hantke
Introduction
Simon Bacon
Prologue: Pathological Nostalgia
Theresa Porter
Part I: Configuring the Undead Present
Chapter One: "Chasing spies—so old-fashioned!": Toxic Nostalgia and the Undying Past in Sam Mendes' Skyfall (2012)
Katharina Rein
Chapter Two: "Have Changed Their Faces": Capitalism, Celebrity and the Undead Memory of the Consumerist Masses
Andrew M. Boylan
Chapter Three: Gothic Memory and Dark Nostalgia in Lifetime's Flowers in the Attic (2014)
Miranda Corcoran
Chapter Four: Spectral Visitation: Representations of Ghosts, Evil and Benign, in Contemporary Gothic Fiction
Paulina Palmer
Part II: Undead Religion
Chapter Five: Religion and the Gothic Memory: Toxic Excuses for the Past
Brandon Grafius
Chapter Six: Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror Films
Mo Moshaty
Chapter Seven: The Unholy Fusion of Reproductive Futurism and Toxic Nostalgia in Immaculate and The First Omen
Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer and Reece Goodall
Part III: The Undying Past in America
Chapter Eight: "You don't know what those monsters can do": Reexamining Genre and Resisting Representation in American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016)
Kathleen Hudson
Chapter Nine: "I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom": Disrupting Intergenerational Trauma in The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Cathleen Allyn Conway
Chapter Ten: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman: Black Bodies, Black Stories, and Evolving Perspectives in the Supernatural Slasher
Aksel Dadswell
Chapter Eleven: The Wounds of Racism: Traumatic Affect in Lovecraft Country
Matthias du Bondt
Part IV: Undead Colonialism
Chapter Twelve: Undead Usurpers: The Metaphorical Terror at the Heart of Kingdom
Lyz Reblin-Renshaw
Chapter Thirteen: Frankenstein in Baghdad
Martyn James Colebrook
Chapter Fourteen: Mujeres juntas, marabunta: La Llorona and La Tulivieja, Contesting Patriarchal the Stronghold in Latin American Horror
Valeria Villegas Lindvall
Chapter Fifteen: Zombie Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Tech-Utopia in Don Delillo's Late Fiction
John Conlan
Part V: Undead Memory in Undying Futures
Chapter Sixteen: We Have Always Lived in the Bunker: Toxic Nostalgia in the Post-Traumatic Culture of Attack on Titan
Cristina Diamant
Chapter Seventeen: User Not Found: The Trauma Virus in Unfriended and The Den
Duncan Hubber
Chapter Eighteen: "The Circuit complete, I drain him": The Memory of Monsters in "The Stainless Steel Leach"
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
