The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic

List of contributors Preface Chronology: important "Gothic" events PART I THE GOTHIC AND MODERNITY 1 Introduction: modernity and the proliferation of the Gothic Jerrold E. Hogle 2 Modernist Gothic John Paul Riquelme 3 Contemporary Gothic and the law Susan Chaplin PART II THE GOTHIC AND THE MODERN BODY 4 Gothic configurations of gender Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik 5 The "queer limits" in the modern Gothic E. L. McCallum 6 Teen Gothic Glennis Byron and Sharon Deans PART III THE GOTHIC IN MODERN MEDIA 7 Cinema of the Gothic extreme Elisabeth Bronfen 8 American film noir Charles Scruggs 9 Techno-Gothics of the early-twenty-first century Isabella van Elferen PART IV MULTICULTURAL AND GLOBAL GOTHIC 10 The Gothic and the politics of race Maisha L. Wester 11 The Gothic in North American "subcultures" Carlos Gallego 12 The postcolonial Gothic Ken Gelder 13 Asian Gothic Katarzyna Ancuta 14 The Gothic and magical realism Lucie Armitt Guide to further reading Guide to further viewing Index