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B-movie gothic : international perspectives / edited by Justin D. Edwards and Johan Höglund.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Justin, Author.
- Series:
- Traditions in world cinema.
- Traditions in world cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- B films--History and criticism.
- B films.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Influence.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--Influence.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Introduction: International B-Movie Gothic
- PART I AMERICA
- 1. Its, Blobs and Things: Gothic Beings Out of Time
- 2. Re-scripting Blaxploitation Horror: Ganja and Hess and the Gothic Mode
- 3. Alucardas and Alucardos: Vampiric Obsessions, Gothic and Mexican Cult Horror Cinema
- 4. Gothic Forests and Mangroves: Ecological Disasters in Zombio and Mangue Negro
- PART II EUROPE
- 5. Mummies, Vampires and Doppelgängers: Hammer’s B-Movies and Classic Gothic Fiction
- 6. Fantaterror: Gothic Monsters in the Golden Age of Spanish B-Movie Horror, 1968–80
- 7. Austro-trash, Class and the Urban Environment: The Politics of Das Ding aus der Mur and its Prequel
- 8. Wither the Present, Wither the Past: The Low-budget Gothic Horror of Stockholm Syndrome Films
- 9. Turkish B-Movie Gothic: Making the Undead Turkish in Ölüler Konuşmaz Ki
- PART III AFRICA AND ASIA
- 10. Filamu ya kutisha: Tanzanian Horror Films and B-Movie Gothic
- 11. Psychopaths and Gothic Lolitas: Japanese B-Movie Gothic in Gen Takahashi’s Goth: Love and Death and Go Ohara’s Gothic & Lolita Psycho
- 12. Hong Kong Gothic: Category III Films as Gothic Cinema
- 13. B is for Bhayanak: Past, Present and Pulp in Bollywood Gothic
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-2345-0
- 1-4744-2346-9
- OCLC:
- 1306541816
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