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Description

Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. Their chapters investigate many critical issues related to Gothic mash-up, including authorship, originality, intellectual property, fandom, commercialization, and canonicity. Although varied in approach, the chapters all explore how Gothic storytellers make new stories out of older ones, relying on a mix of appropriation and innovation. Covering many examples of mash-up, from nineteenth-century Gothic novels to twenty-first-century video games and interactive fiction, this collection builds from the premise that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

Table of Contents

Part I: Film and Television Mash-Ups

1. Do the Monster Mash: Universal's “Classic Monsters” and the Industrialization of the Gothic Transmedia Franchise
Megen de Bruin-Molé
2. Adapting Monstrous Creation: Lisztomania and Gothic as Gothic Mash-Ups
Kevin M. Flanagan
3. Gothic Exploitation: Transnational Appropriation, Hybridity, and Originality in Continental Horror Cinema, 1957–1983
Xavier Aldana Reyes
4. Queer(ly) Mash(ed) Up: Portraits of Neo-Victorian Others in Penny Dreadful
Sarah E. Maier and Rachel M. Friars
5. Horror, Humor, and Satire in Get Out
Chesya Burke

Part II: Literary Mash-Ups

6. Anne Boleyn, Tudor Vampire
Stephanie Russo
7. The Holmes-Meets-Dracula Mash-Up
L. N. Rosales
8. Orgiastic Authorship in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Teleny
Sandra M. Leonard
9. Rewriting Indigeneity in the Canadian Gothic: Monsters, Mash-Up, and Monkey Beach
Kelly Baron

Part III: More Mash-Ups: Comics, Performance, and Games

10. “The crawling thing within me”: Marvel Comics

Product details

Published Mar 14 2022
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 284
ISBN 9781978752825
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 10 b/w photos;
Series Research in Horror Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Natalie Neill

Contributor

Kelly Baron

Kelly Baron is Coordinator for the Northrop Frye C…

Contributor

Chesya Burke

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Stephanie Russo

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Ewan Kirkland

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Sarah E. Maier

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L. N. Rosales

Contributor

Julia Round

Contributor

Nik Taylor

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Mary Beth Tegan

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Adam Whybray

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