Overview
- Covers topics from the spectral to the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism, Mary Poppins to John Wick
- Looks at the confluence between various kinds of toxic nostalgia and popular culture
- Suggests the ways in which contemporary populism has resurrected ideological monsters from the grave
Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Frameworks of Gothic Nostalgia and Toxicity
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The Toxic Screen
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Identity
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Environments
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Keywords
About this book
This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory
are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics in
contemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover topics from the spectral to
the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism, Mary Poppins to John Wick to reveal
how the use of an imaginary past to shape the present, creates truly Gothic times that we
can never escape. These ‘hungry ghosts’ from the past find resonance with the Gothic
which speaks equally of a past that often not only haunts the present but will not let it
escape its grasp. This collection will look at the confluence between various kinds of toxic
nostalgia and popular culture to suggest the ways in which contemporary populism has
resurrected ideological monsters from the grave to gorge on the present and any possibility
of change that the future might represent.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland.
Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznan, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gothic Nostalgia
Book Subtitle: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture
Editors: Simon Bacon, Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43852-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43851-6Published: 31 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43854-7Due: 02 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-43852-3Published: 30 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 316
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gothic Studies, Popular Culture , Screen Studies, Memory Studies