Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture 3031438523, 9783031438523

Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture 3031438523, 9783031438523

This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory are used to underpin and promote

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A Cinema of Hopelessness : The Rhetoric of Rage in 21st Century Popular Culture 9783030741365, 9783030741358

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Gothic Remixed: Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture 9781350103054, 9781350103085, 9781350103061

The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, va

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Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia 9780511814297

The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this study, Ver

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Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture 9781789206296

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambiti

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German Post-Socialist Memory Culture: Epistemic Nostalgia 9789048544677

Breaking new ground in the study of post-socialist memory culture, this book explains why former GDR cadres replicate GD

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American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century 9780748631322

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Ending child poverty: Popular welfare for the 21st century? 9781847425058

In the Beveridge Lecture, delivered on 18 March 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his government to abolishing c

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Tax Reform in the 21st Century: A Volume in Memory of Richard Musgrave 9041128298, 9789041128294

No government can be sustained without the ability to tax its citizens. The question then arises how can a nation do so

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Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century : Marlboro Men and California Gurls [1 ed.] 9781527505285, 9781443878982

This book explores popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities

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