{"product_id":"the-american-southern-gothic-on-screen-9789463729444","title":"The American Southern Gothic on Screen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Southern Gothic on Screen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003eFrom Belles to Bayous: The Fall of the South on Screen \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section One The South in the Cultural Imaginary \u003cbr\u003e1. The South as Region: Southern History, Southern Identity, and Perceptions of Southern Difference \u003cbr\u003e2. From Sectionalism to Swamp People: Conceptualizations of Southern Otherness \u003cbr\u003e3. Ghosts Fierce and Instructive: The South as Haunted Terrain \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Two Gothic Visions, Southern Stories \u003cbr\u003e4. Crumbling Structures and Contaminated Narratives: Genre and the Gothic \u003cbr\u003e5. Manifesting the Other \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Three The Southern Gothic on Screen \u003cbr\u003e6. Locating the Gothic South \u003cbr\u003e7. Slavery, Degeneracy, Myth, and Historical Resonances: A Survey of Southern Gothic Screen Texts \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section Four Case Studies: \u003ccite\u003eToys in the Attic\u003c\/cite\u003e and \u003ccite\u003eSearching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e8. Reinterpreting Gothic Secrecy: \u003ccite\u003eToys in the Attic\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e9. Finding the South in the Ethereal: Atmosphere and the Spectral in \u003ccite\u003eSearching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion – Fading, But Never Faded \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Filmography \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Television Series \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Songs \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Video Games \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Websites \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49427755106647,"sku":"9789463729444","price":101.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-american-southern-gothic-on-screen-9789463729444","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}