The California gothic in fiction and film /Bernice M. Murphy.

By:

Murphy, Bernice M [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781474497886
9781474497893

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN3448 .C355 2022
PS374

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Contents:

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 -- 3. "Sunshine isn't enough" : Hollywood gothic origins -- 4. Fallen stars in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) -- 5. "It's a gateway part!" Twenty-first century Hollywood gothic -- 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).

Subject: "This book positions the California Gothic as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specific to the historical, cultural and geographical characteristics of the Golden State. California has long been perceived as a utopian space, but it is also haunted by the spectres of European and Anglo-American imperialism, genocide, racial and economic discrimination, natural disaster and aggressive infrastructural and commercial development. Drawing on the work of California historians and cultural commentators, this study explores the ways in which the nightmarish flipside of the California Dream has been depicted within horror and Gothic."--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : "Evil lurks in California" -- 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 -- 3. "Sunshine isn't enough" : Hollywood gothic origins -- 4. Fallen stars in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) -- 5. "It's a gateway part!" Twenty-first century Hollywood gothic -- 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).

"This book positions the California Gothic as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specific to the historical, cultural and geographical characteristics of the Golden State. California has long been perceived as a utopian space, but it is also haunted by the spectres of European and Anglo-American imperialism, genocide, racial and economic discrimination, natural disaster and aggressive infrastructural and commercial development. Drawing on the work of California historians and cultural commentators, this study explores the ways in which the nightmarish flipside of the California Dream has been depicted within horror and Gothic."--

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