The California Gothic in Fiction and Film / / Bernice M. Murphy.
Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesAnalyses the key historical events and cultural and social factors which have shaped Californian identity and found expression in horror and Gothic narrativesConsiders contributors to the California Gothic canon, such as: Na...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Evil Lurks in California’
- Part I Foundational Horrors
- 1 ‘What Happened a Hundred Years Ago is Happening Again’: The Ghosts of the California Past
- 2 The Dark Side of ‘the Good Life’: California and the Birth of Modern Horror
- Part II Hollywood Gothic
- 3 ‘Sunshine isn’t Enough’: Hollywood Gothic Origins
- 4 Fallen Stars in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
- 5 ‘It’s a Gateway Part!’ Twenty-First-Century Hollywood Gothic
- Part III Cult California: New Gods and New Selves
- 6 Cult Nightmares in Our Lady of Darkness (1977) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- 7 ‘The Usual Utopian Vision’: Contemporary Cult California in The Invitation (2015), 1BR (2019) and The Circle (2013)
- Conclusion: ‘It’s Our Time Now’: Us (2019) and Desierto (2015)
- Bibliography
- Index