The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture

Author: Murphy B.

Brand: Springer

Edition: 2009

Number Of Pages: 242

Details: About the Author

BERNICE M. MURPHY is Lecturer in Popular Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She edited the collection Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy (2005) and is co-founder/editor of the online Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.

Product Description

The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson’s The Road Through the Wall , Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade, including I Am Legend , Bewitched , Halloween and Desperate Housewives .

Review

“the suburban ideal continues to exert a powerful pull on the American imagination, and Murphy’s work offers a timely analysis…” –Journal of American Studies, (2011), 45: 208-209, Cara Rodway, King’s College, London.

an addictive page-turner of insightful, solid scholarship on a subject matter fascinating for its revealed reverberations within the American cultural psyche –Ch. Dokou, European Journal of American studies [Online], 14 June 2010.

Release Date: 21-08-2009

Package Dimensions: 22x218x440