The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence
| By: | Höglund, Johan, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409449546 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472406477 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself