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The California gothic in fiction and film
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- Creator
- Bernice M. Murphy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 1474497896, 1474497861, 9781474497886, 9781474497893, 1474497888, 9781474497862
- OCLC
- on1345678715
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-301) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film and was recently academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Bernice was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2017.
- Introduction : "Evil lurks in California" -- 1. "What happened a hundred years ago is happening again!" The ghosts of the California past -- 2. The dark side of the "good life" : California and the birth of modern horror -- 3. "Sunshine isn't enough" : Hollywood gothic origins -- 4. Fallen stars in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) -- 5. "It's a gateway part!" Twenty-first century Hollywood gothic -- 6. Cult nightmares in Our Lady of Darkness (1977) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) -- 7. The usual utopian vision : Contemporary cult California in The Invitation (2015), 1BR (2019) and The Circle (2013) -- Conclusion : "It's our time now" : Us (2019) and Desierto (2015)