{"product_id":"neoliberal-gothic-international-gothic-in-the-neoliberal-age-9781526139467","title":"Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we know it. \u003ci\u003eNeoliberal Gothic \u003c\/i\u003eexplores that world, considering the ways in which the exponential increase in the cultural visibility of the gothic attests to the mode's engagement with the most significant dynamics of our age. These include the triumph of free market economics, the revolution in information and communication technologies, the emergence of global biotechnologies, the increasing power of transnational corporations, the US-led 'War on Terror' and the global financial crisis of 2008.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough analysis of texts drawn from literature, film, television, theatre and the visual arts (from Europe to South East Asia, Africa to North and South America) the collection examines the ways in which the representational strategies of the gothic mode are ideally suited to an exploration of the dark side of neoliberal enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This collection of essays is an indispensable addition to twenty-first-century criticism on the Gothic, a criticism that is showing an increasing interest in texts created worldwide.’\u003cbr\u003eJournal of the fantastic in the arts\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: neoliberal gothic -\u003ci\u003e Linnie Blake and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Neoliberal gothic monsters\u003cbr\u003e1. Game of fangs: the vampire and neoliberal subjectivity - \u003ci\u003eAspasia Stephanou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Austerity bites: refiguring \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e in a neoliberal age - \u003ci\u003eStephanie Genz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Staging spectrality: capitalising (on) ghosts in German postdramatic theatre - \u003ci\u003eBarry Murnane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Biotechnologies, neoliberalism and the gothic\u003cbr\u003e4. The return of the dismembered: representing organ trafficking in Asian cinemas -\u003ci\u003e Katarzyna Ancuta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Catastrophic events and queer northern villages: zombie pharmacology \u003ci\u003eIn the Flesh \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e Linnie Blake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Gothic vulnerability: affect and ethics in fiction from neoliberal South Africa - \u003ci\u003eRebecca Duncan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The gothic home and neoliberalism\u003cbr\u003e7. Market value: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Horror Story\u003c\/i\u003e's housing crisis - \u003ci\u003eKaren E. Macfarlane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Haunted by the ghost: from global economics to domestic anxiety in contemporary art practice - \u003ci\u003eTracy Fahey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Crossing borders\u003cbr\u003e9. Gothic meltdown: German nuclear cinema in neoliberal times - \u003ci\u003eSteffen Hantke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Border gothic: Gregory Nava's \u003ci\u003eBordertown \u003c\/i\u003eand the dark side of NAFTA - \u003ci\u003eAgnieszka Soltysik Monnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041000718679,"sku":"9781526139467","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526139467.jpg?v=1750948552","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neoliberal-gothic-international-gothic-in-the-neoliberal-age-9781526139467","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}