The California Gothic in Fiction and Film

ISBN-13: 9781474497862 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Bernice M. Murphy

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: ‘Evil Lurks in California’

Part 1: Foundational Horrors

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

Part 2: Hollywood Gothic

3. ‘Sunshine is Never 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

Part 3: Cult California: New Gods and New Selves

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:

8. ‘It’s Our Time Now’: Us (2019) and Desierto (2015)

Index