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Book SynopsisGothic Afterlives examines the intersecting dimensions of contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship, bringing together innovative perspectives from different areas of study. The research compiled in this collection covers a wide range of examples, including not only literature but also film, television, video games, and digital media remakes. Gothic Afterlives signals the cultural and conceptual impact of Gothic horror on transmedia production, with a focus on reimagining and remaking. While diverse in content and approach, all chapters pivot on two important points: first, they reflect some of the core preoccupations of Gothic horror by subverting cultural and social certainties about notions such as the body, technology, consumption, human nature, digitalization, scientific experimentation, national identity, memory, and gender and by challenging the boundaries between human and inhuman, self and Other, and good and evil. Second, and perhaps most important, all chapters in t
Trade ReviewThis is a varied collection, full of exciting new research from leading scholars in Gothic and Horror Studies, on the Gothic’s continued engagement with the processes of retelling and remediation. Wide-ranging, yet also case-specific, Gothic Afterlives is an essential read for anyone with an interest in how the mode is evolving in an age marked by the preponderance of sequels, prequels, (re-)adaptations, reboots and remakes. -- Xavier Aldana Reyes, reader in English literature and film, Manchester Metropolitan University
Join hands everyone as Lorna Piatti-Farnell leads us in a séance, summoning spirits of the past and showing how they are compelled to speak in the present! From Anne Radcliffe to Resident Evil and from Dracula to Disney villains, the contributions to Piatti-Farnell’s savvy and sophisticated Gothic Afterlives collection explore the ways contemporary film and media adapt and update older Gothic horror texts to suit contemporary circumstances and sensibilities. Transnational and multidisciplinary in their approaches, the chapters range from a specific focus on reimaginings of well-known texts such as Frankenstein to broader considerations of the adaptation process. Cutting edge in its methodology and extensive in focus, Gothic Afterlives will be essential reading not only for mediums and past-lives spelunkers, but for scholars and fans of contemporary Gothic horror in a variety of different media. -- Jeffrey Weinstock, Central Michigan University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Reincarnations and (Re)imaginings
Chapter One: Beyond the Barricades: Restaging the Siege Narrative in post-Romero Zombie Film and TV
Chapter Two: The Afterlives of Alice: Reanimating the Gothic Heroine in the Resident Evil Franchise
Chapter Three: Evil, Reborn: Remaking Disney and the Villain Intertext
Chapter Four: Untold Draculas: Textual Estrangement, Cinematic Reincarnation, and the Popular Dracula Legend
Chapter Five: “Most of you are wondering who the heck I am”: Carmilla (2014-2016, online) as Digital Reimagining of LeFanu’s “Carmilla”
Part II: Legacies, Dualities, and Hauntings
Chapter Six: Remaking Olimpia: Agency and the Gothic Afterlives of ‘Female’ Automata
Chapter Seven: Ann Radcliffe’s Legacy and Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015)
Chapter Eight: Unmade and Remade: Trauma and Modern Adaptations of Frankenstein
Chapter Nine: Dealing with Dualities: Modern Adaptations of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Part III: (Re)turns and Re(possessions)
Chapter Ten: Remaking Stephen King: Texts and Contexts
Chapter Eleven: Stranger Things: Remixing Eighties Horror as Posthuman Gothic
Chapter Twelve: Mexican Gothic Remakes: Carlos Enrique Taboada’s Films, Possessions, and Double Loops
Chapter Thirteen: Tangled Hair and Broken Bodies: Remaking Women and Technology in Japanese Gothic Horror Tradition from The Tale of Genji to Ringu
Chapter Fourteen: “Don’t Fuck with the Original:” Final Girl Impact on the Twenty-First Century Horror Film Industry
