<i>The American Southern Gothic on Screen</i> 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....

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1. Verfasser:	Horsley, Karen ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2022
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1932-2021 Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American / History and criticism USA > Südstaaten > Motiv Horrorfilm Southern States / In motion pictures Southern States / On television USA
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Zusammenfassung:	<i>The American Southern Gothic on Screen</i> 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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (234 Seiten)
ISBN:	9789048553136
DOI:	10.1017/9789048553136