The American imperial gothic : popular culture, empire, violence / Johan Höglund, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The cultural politics of media and popular culturePublisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]Description: xi, 211 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409449546 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/358 23
LOC classification:
  • PS169.I45 H64 2014
Contents:
Introduction : the American imperial gothic -- Imperial frontier gothic -- The gothic of benevolent assimilation -- Cold war horror -- Post-vietnam gothic -- 11 September and the gothic war on terror -- Afghanistan, Iraq and the new frontiers of the imperial gothic -- Militarising the virtual gothic -- Tales of torture and invasion -- The imperial gothic of the post-apocalypse -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-198) and index.

Introduction : the American imperial gothic -- Imperial frontier gothic -- The gothic of benevolent assimilation -- Cold war horror -- Post-vietnam gothic -- 11 September and the gothic war on terror -- Afghanistan, Iraq and the new frontiers of the imperial gothic -- Militarising the virtual gothic -- Tales of torture and invasion -- The imperial gothic of the post-apocalypse -- Conclusion.

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