The American Southern Gothic on Screen (Hardcover)

The Southern Gothic on Screen explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the early twentieth century, have led to the construction of the American South as a space of ruin, decay, melancholy, loss, and haunting. The book considers the cultural significance of the Southern Gothic on screen by examining southern otherness as the primary mechanism through which the South is rendered a space of darkness and danger. This opens up a critical space for the Southern Gothic to be discussed as a screen genre with its own complex visual, thematic and narrative codes. The book establishes a perspective that synthesizes a broad understanding of Southern Gothic genericity with pre-existing cultural and political discourses on the South, resulting in an analysis that is specific to film and television while remaining heedful of the intersecting discourses that inform both the Gothic and the South as historic and mediated constructs.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	Karen Horsley
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-9463729444
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	9463729445
Barcode:	9789463729444

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