Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. Their chapters investigate many critical issues related to Gothic mash-up, including authorship, originality, intellectual property, fandom, commercialization, and canonicity. Although varied in approach, the chapters all explore how Gothic storytellers make new stories out of older ones, relying on a mix of appropriation and innovation. Covering many examples of mash-up, from nineteenth-century Gothic novels to twenty-first-century video games and interactive fiction, this collection builds from the premise that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.
Natalie Neill is assistant professor of English at York University.
Part I: Film and Television Mash-Ups 1.Do the Monster Mash: Universal's "Classic Monsters" and the Industrialization of the Gothic Transmedia Franchise Megen de Bruin-Mole 2.Adapting Monstrous Creation: Lisztomania and Gothic as Gothic Mash-Ups Kevin M. Flanagan 3.Gothic Exploitation: Transnational Appropriation, Hybridity, and Originality in Continental Horror Cinema, 1957-1983 Xavier Aldana Reyes 4.Queer(ly) Mash(ed) Up: Portraits of Neo-Victorian Others in Penny Dreadful Sarah E. Maier and Rachel M. Friars 5.Horror, Humor, and Satire in Get Out Chesya Burke Part II: Literary Mash-Ups 6.Anne Boleyn, Tudor Vampire Stephanie Russo 7.The Holmes-Meets-Dracula Mash-Up L. N. Rosales 8.Orgiastic Authorship in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Teleny Sandra M. Leonard 9.Rewriting Indigeneity in the Canadian Gothic: Monsters, Mash-Up, and Monkey Beach Kelly Baron Part III: More Mash-Ups: Comics, Performance, and Games 10."The crawling thing within me": Marvel Comics and the Return of the Gothic Body Matthew Costello and Mary Beth Tegan 11.Misty, Mash-Ups, and the Marginalized in British Girls' Comics Julia Round 12.Mashing Up Magick: Bizarre Magick and the Fuzzy Gothic Nik Taylor 13.Gothic Gaming, Queer Mash-Ups, and Gone Home Ewan Kirkland 14.Hypertext of Horrors: A Post-Mortem of Evermore: A Choose Your Own Edgar Allan Poe Adventure Adam Whybray
This well-structured, highly revealing, thorough, scholarly, yet always accessible collection shows how "mash-ups" intermingling once-disparate elements in many different media - yet always with visibly Gothic echoes - extend well beyond the likes of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. These revelations draw us both backward to expose how Gothic fictions have always been mash-ups and forward to detail how those mixtures have been exfoliated in comics, performance magic, video games, and a very wide range of films and texts not always recognized as mash-ups to the extent they really are. The result is a strong, expansive rewriting of the history of the Gothic that every student and fan of that mode should take account of from now on. -- Jerrold E. Hogle, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Arizona
