Awards

• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2025 (United States)

Overview

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the present world. Here in our modern time, undead memory is not just a remembrance of the past that is visited upon the present with negative implications, but the 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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Author:   Simon Bacon ,  Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer ,  Simon Bacon ,  Andrew M. Boylan
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.708kg
ISBN:  

9781666935608

ISBN 10:   1666935603
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   15 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time: Undead Memory and the Return to the Return of the Repressed Steffen Hantke Introduction Simon Bacon Prologue: Pathological Nostalgia Theresa Porter Part I: Configuring the Undead Present Chapter One: “Chasing spies—so old-fashioned!”: Toxic Nostalgia and the Undying Past in Sam Mendes’ Skyfall (2012) Katharina Rein Chapter Two: “Have Changed Their Faces”: Capitalism, Celebrity and the Undead Memory of the Consumerist Masses Andrew M. Boylan Chapter Three: Gothic Memory and Dark Nostalgia in Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic (2014) Miranda Corcoran Chapter Four: Spectral Visitation: Representations of Ghosts, Evil and Benign, in Contemporary Gothic Fiction Paulina Palmer Part II: Undead Religion Chapter Five: Religion and the Gothic Memory: Toxic Excuses for the Past Brandon Grafius Chapter Six: Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror Films Mo Moshaty Chapter Seven: The Unholy Fusion of Reproductive Futurism and Toxic Nostalgia in Immaculate and The First Omen Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer and Reece Goodall Part III: The Undying Past in America Chapter Eight: “You don’t know what those monsters can do”: Reexamining Genre and Resisting Representation in American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016) Kathleen Hudson Chapter Nine: “I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom”: Disrupting Intergenerational Trauma in The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires Cathleen Allyn Conway Chapter Ten: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman: Black Bodies, Black Stories, and Evolving Perspectives in the Supernatural Slasher Aksel Dadswell Chapter Eleven: The Wounds of Racism: Traumatic Affect in Lovecraft Country Matthias du Bondt Part IV: Undead Colonialism Chapter Twelve: Undead Usurpers: The Metaphorical Terror at the Heart of Kingdom Lyz Reblin-Renshaw Chapter Thirteen: Frankenstein in Baghdad Martyn James Colebrook Chapter Fourteen: Mujeres juntas, marabunta: La Llorona and La Tulivieja, Contesting Patriarchal the Stronghold in Latin American Horror Valeria Villegas Lindvall Chapter Fifteen: Zombie Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Tech-Utopia in Don Delillo’s Late Fiction John Conlan Part V: Undead Memory in Undying Futures Chapter Sixteen: We Have Always Lived in the Bunker: Toxic Nostalgia in the Post-Traumatic Culture of Attack on Titan Cristina Diamant Chapter Seventeen: User Not Found: The Trauma Virus in Unfriended and The Den Duncan Hubber Chapter Eighteen: “The Circuit complete, I drain him”: The Memory of Monsters in “The Stainless Steel Leach” Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

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

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