Toxic Nostalgia on Screen: Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century (Research in Horror Studies) - Hardcover

 
9781666935608: Toxic Nostalgia on Screen: Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century (Research in Horror Studies)

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Toxic Nostalgia on Screen examines our understanding of nostalgia and its misuses in the present cultural environment. Twenty original essays show how undead memory has become an embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate the way we live today so that tomorrow is not the future, but a never-ending return to the past.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar, author, and film critic based in Poznan, Poland.

Reece Goodall is Director of Student Experience at the University of Warwick, UK, where he completed a PhD thesis comprising an industrial and theoretical analysis of contemporary French horror cinema. His research interests include horror and other genres in French cinema, the contemporary horror genre, and the interplay between media, news, and politics.

Brandon R. Grafius is assistant professor of biblical studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary.

Steffen Hantke is Associate Professor at the English Department of Sogang University in Seoul. He is the author of Paranoia and Conspiracy in Contemporary American Literature: The Works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy (1994) and editor of Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear (2004). His reviews and articles have appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Film Criticism.

Kathleen Hudson is adjunct professor at the United States Naval Academy and Anne Arundel Community College.

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