Lexington Books
Pages: 246
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-7822-6 • Hardback • September 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-7824-0 • Paperback • July 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-4985-7823-3 • eBook • September 2019 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Lorna Piatti-Farnell is director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Introduction
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
This 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
Gothic Afterlives joins a growing body of work that seeks to understand why horror films and their protagonists refuse to stay dead. Focusing on new millennial ‘reincarnations'—remakes, reboots and adaptations—this book evaluates key works of gothic horror, their recent film transformations, and their ongoing cultural impact. Assembling an impressive set of case studies, Gothic Afterlives interrogates key works—including Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde—to demonstrate how core themes of gothic horror are drawn out through contemporary texts—such as Carmilla, Crimson Peak, and Stranger Things—and across new media platforms.
— Constantine Verevis, Monash 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