Popular Ghosts The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture

, by Peeren, Esther; del Pilar Blanco, Maria

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ISBN: 9781441164018 | 1441164014
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Copyright: 4/1/2010

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Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.

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Introduction	p. ix
Genealogies of the Ghost	p. 1
Ghosts: Of Ourselves or, Drifting with Hardy, Heidegger, James, and Woolf	p. 3
Beckett's Ghost Light	p. 19
Uncanny Marxism: Or, Do Androids Dream of Electric Lenin?	p. 35
Where Are the Dead? A Genealogy of Mediumship in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity	p. 50
The Skeptical Ghost: Alejandro Amenábar's The Others and the Return of the Dead	p. 64
Spectral Politics of the Contemporary	p. 77
National Hauntings: Specters of Socialism in Shree 420 and Deewar	p. 79
Shadow of the Colossus: The Spectral Lives of 9/11	p. 94
Everyday Ghosts and the Ghostly Everyday in Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, and Achille Mbembe	p. 106
The Gentle Irruption of the Hereafter in This Life: Jean Echenoz's Au piano and Robin Campillo's Les revenants	p. 118
Specters of the U.S. Prison Regime: Haunting Tourism and the Penal Gaze	p. 133
Chasing Ghosts In(to) the Twenty-first Century	p. 147
The Liveness of Ghosts: Haunting and Reality TV	p. 149
Ghost Hunters: Simulated Participation in Televisual Hauntings	p. 162
The Haunted Lecture Theater: Ghosts in the Academy in the BBC's Sea of Souls	p. 175
Other Ghostly Spheres	p. 185
Genius Loci: Memory, Media, and the Neo-Gothic in Georg Klein and Elfriede Jelinek	p. 187
Haunted Habitability: Wilderness and American Haunted House Narratives	p. 200
Gothic Affects: Digitally Haunted Houses and the Production of Affect-Value	p. 213
Ghosts in the Machine: The Body in Digital Animation	p. 225
The Ghost Worlds of Modem Adolescence	p. 239
Ambient Ghosts: Spectral Images, Sounds, and Bodies	p. 251
The Haunting of the Everyday in the Thoughtographs of Ted Serios	p. 253
"Following the Ghost": The Psychogeography of Alternative Country	p. 268
Haunted by a Melody: Ghosts, Transgression, and Music in Twin Peaks	p. 282
Occultic Inscriptions: The Modern Ghost-Tattoo in Japan, from Kyôsai to Horiyoshi III	p. 296
Select Bibliography	p. 311
Contributors	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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