Gothicka : vampire heroes, human gods, and the new supernatural / Victoria Nelson.
| Author/creator |
Nelson, Victoria |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. |
| Description | xiii, 333 pages : facsimiles, illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065406 |
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| Contents | White dog, the prequel : between imagination and belief -- Faux Catholic : a Gothick genealogy from Monk Lewis to Dan Brown -- Gothick gods : the worshipful world of horror fandom -- Decommissioning Satan : in favor of his man-god whelps -- Gothick romance : the danse macabre of women -- The bright god beckons : the new vampire romance -- Postapocalyptic Gothick : that means zombies (and the occasional zampire) -- The Gothick theater of Halloween : performing allegory -- The ten rules of Sitges : global Gothick horror and beyond -- Cathedral head : the Gothick cosmos of Guillermo del Toro -- The new Christian Gothick : The shack and other cathedrals -- Epilogue: Questions without answers. |
| Abstract | To explain the millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic--the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011041651 |
| ISBN | 9780674050143 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0674050142 (alk. paper) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PN3435 .N45 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |