"Toxic Nostalgia on Screen examines our understanding of nostalgia and its misuses in the present cultural environment. Twenty original essays show how undead memory has become an embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate theway we live today so that tomorrow is not the future, but a never-ending return to the past"--
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.
Toxic Nostalgia on Screen examines our understanding of nostalgia and its misuses in the present cultural environment. Twenty original essays show how undead memory has become an 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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Toxic Nostalgia on Screen examines our understanding of nostalgia and its misuses in the present cultural environment. Twenty original essays show how undead memory has become an 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.
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 spiesso 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 Lifetimes 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 dont 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 Clubs 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
Delillos 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.
Simon Bacon is an independent scholar, author, and film critic based in Pozna, Poland.
