Fear of Aging : Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film
| Fear of Aging : Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film |
| Autore | Guimarães João Paulo |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ArndtMaria |
| Collana | Gegenwartsliteratur : TRSGELI |
| Soggetto topico | LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Aging Studies
Aging Culture Film Gothic Horror Literary Studies Literature Medical Humanities Medicine Popular Culture |
| ISBN |
9783839461952
3839461952 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- “Grateful for the Time We Have Been Given” -- A Horrifying Reversal -- There's No Cure -- The Southern Slasher Comes of Age -- “With Strange Aeons Even Death May Die” -- "And I'm Going to Get Old" -- Claudia: The Forever Child and Vampire Killer in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire -- Childhood at the Center -- Old Age and Disability as Alterity -- Fears of Old Age, Cultural Representations of Elders and Narrative Twists of Aging in Four Horror Episodes of the Twilight Zone -- Uncanny Female Aging in Dahl's Horror -- Two Witches at the School -- Alzheimer’s Disease as Demonic Possession in Adam Robitel’s The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) -- Beyond the Horror of the Aging Female |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910985983303321 |
Guimarães João Paulo
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| Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fear of Aging : Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film
| Fear of Aging : Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film |
| Autore | Guimarães João Paulo |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ArndtMaria |
| Collana | Gegenwartsliteratur : TRSGELI |
| Soggetto topico | LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Aging Studies
Aging Culture Film Gothic Horror Literary Studies Literature Medical Humanities Medicine Popular Culture |
| ISBN |
9783839461952
3839461952 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- “Grateful for the Time We Have Been Given” -- A Horrifying Reversal -- There's No Cure -- The Southern Slasher Comes of Age -- “With Strange Aeons Even Death May Die” -- "And I'm Going to Get Old" -- Claudia: The Forever Child and Vampire Killer in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire -- Childhood at the Center -- Old Age and Disability as Alterity -- Fears of Old Age, Cultural Representations of Elders and Narrative Twists of Aging in Four Horror Episodes of the Twilight Zone -- Uncanny Female Aging in Dahl's Horror -- Two Witches at the School -- Alzheimer’s Disease as Demonic Possession in Adam Robitel’s The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) -- Beyond the Horror of the Aging Female |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996659461503316 |
Guimarães João Paulo
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| Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith
| Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 823.08729093548 |
| Collana | Manchester Gothic |
| Soggetto topico |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism Death in literature Literature Literature & Literary Studies LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance Biography, Literature & Literary studies - Gothic - United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Corpse
Creativity Death Gothic Romanticism Uncanny Writing nineteenth century |
| ISBN |
1-5261-0108-4
1-5261-1525-5 1-5261-0107-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction 1. Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics 2. Mourning, memory and melancholy: constructing death in the 1790s-1820s 3. From writing to reading: Poe, Brontë and Eliot 4. Gothic death and Dickens: executions, graves and dreams 5. Loving the undead: Haggard, Stoker and Wilde 6. Decoding the dying: Machen and Stoker Conclusion Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792660303321 |
Smith Andrew <1964->
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| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects : imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present / / edited by Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner
| Monstrous media/spectral subjects : imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present / / edited by Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809.938729 |
| Collana | Manchester Gothic |
| Soggetto topico |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism
Gothic revival (Literature) Literature Literary Studies / From C 1900 - LITERARY CRITICISM / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance Literary studies - c 1900 to c 2000 Literature - history & criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Gothic film
Gothic literature Gothic music Gothic Haunting Media Monstrosity New media Spectrality Technology |
| ISBN |
0-7190-9812-2
1-78170-865-7 0-7190-9813-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: monstrous media/spectral subjects / Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner -- Part 1. Between text and image -- Gothic wars-media's lust: on the cultural afterlife of the war dead / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Kingdom of shawows: fin-de-siecle gothic and early cinema / Paul Foster -- 'A mirror with a memory': the development of the negative in Victorian gothic / Gregory Brophy -- Modern phantasmagorias and visual culture in Wilkie Collin's Basil / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas -- Part 2. Sounding spectres -- "The earth died screaming": Tom Waits's Bone Machine / Steen Christiansen -- Ghosts of the Gristleized / Dean Lockwood -- Part 3. Moving media -- 'Nineteenth century (up-to-date) with a vengeance': vampirism, Victorianism and collage in Guy Maddin's Dracula--Pages from a Virgin's Diary / Dorothea Schuller -- Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Burger's The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser's short stories / Jean-Francœois Baillon -- Performing fabulous monsters: re-inventing the gothic personae in bizarre magick / Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan -- Body genres, night vision and the female monster: REC and the contemporary horror film / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet -- You have been saved: digital memory and salvation / Stephen Curtis. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797610303321 |
| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects : imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present / / edited by Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner
| Monstrous media/spectral subjects : imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present / / edited by Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809.938729 |
| Collana | Manchester Gothic |
| Soggetto topico |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism
Gothic revival (Literature) Literature Literary Studies / From C 1900 - LITERARY CRITICISM / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance Literary studies - c 1900 to c 2000 Literature - history & criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Gothic film
Gothic literature Gothic music Gothic Haunting Media Monstrosity New media Spectrality Technology |
| ISBN |
0-7190-9812-2
1-78170-865-7 0-7190-9813-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: monstrous media/spectral subjects / Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner -- Part 1. Between text and image -- Gothic wars-media's lust: on the cultural afterlife of the war dead / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Kingdom of shawows: fin-de-siecle gothic and early cinema / Paul Foster -- 'A mirror with a memory': the development of the negative in Victorian gothic / Gregory Brophy -- Modern phantasmagorias and visual culture in Wilkie Collin's Basil / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas -- Part 2. Sounding spectres -- "The earth died screaming": Tom Waits's Bone Machine / Steen Christiansen -- Ghosts of the Gristleized / Dean Lockwood -- Part 3. Moving media -- 'Nineteenth century (up-to-date) with a vengeance': vampirism, Victorianism and collage in Guy Maddin's Dracula--Pages from a Virgin's Diary / Dorothea Schuller -- Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Burger's The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser's short stories / Jean-Francœois Baillon -- Performing fabulous monsters: re-inventing the gothic personae in bizarre magick / Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan -- Body genres, night vision and the female monster: REC and the contemporary horror film / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet -- You have been saved: digital memory and salvation / Stephen Curtis. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809349303321 |
| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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