Titlebook: Gothic Nostalgia; The Uses of Toxic Me Simon Bacon,Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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Toxic Nostalgia in the Wake of the Postmodern Turn such as Netflix. As the playful nature of the postmodern narrative wanes, in its wake, as Jameson contends, we are left with the underlying structure without a strong belief in its underpinning. Those residual cultural values are reinforced through the nostalgic trend of the past decade, partly bec

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Deepfake Sockpuppets: The Toxic “Realities” of a Weaponised Internetise from a specific type of deep learning—hence the name—in which sets of algorithms compete in a generative adversarial network or GAN (Goodfellow et al. .. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014). Deep learning is a form of AI in which sets of algorithms (or neural networks) learn to simulate rules and re

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The Nostalgia of Setting, Sex and Sound in the Wicker Man Filmsh a past with a natural and shame-free approach to eroticism, and with more clearly defined gender roles, and . comprised of real and imagined folk songs evoking a bygone era. It is these issues that this chapter will examine beginning with a brief overview of the relationship between nostalgia and

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“You’re Too Focused on Where You’ve Been”: Uncanny Nostalgia in film in the latter Disney era. By examining how overly reliant . is on the original film for its plot and purpose, this chapter demonstrates how nostalgia becomes uncanny due to lack of childhood imagination among Disney tastemakers. This chapter argues that, though the film wants us to return nost

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Pulling Our Strings: The Gothic Nostalgia of Luca Guadagnino’s history. Luca Guadagnino’s . is unique in that it is a remake of a Gothic text. As such, it functions as both Gothic text and an example of Gothic Nostalgia, a mirror of a mirror, reflecting back the fear and anxieties of our present moment while still telling a dream-like tale organised around lik

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“I Just Wanted to Preserve It Just as It Is”: Gothic Nostalgia in age in October 2022 has been the lack of impact the show has exerted over popular culture. Despite proving a large enough commercial success to have earned the commission of a coveted second series, misconceptions over genre conventions attached to director Ryan Murphy’s name led to a mixed receptio

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Prevention Is Better than Cure: Anachronistic Therapists and Toxic Wellnesscion of anyone in authority and of the scientist in general. In horror, power almost inevitably corrupts and the pursuit of knowledge can corrode even the most virtuous into immoral, cruel and monstrous beings. The archetype of the “mad scientist” has been written about extensively, but there is lim

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