All Outputs (16)

The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2024). The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film. In E. Parisot, D. McAllister, & X. Aldana Reyes (Eds.), Graveyard Gothic. Manchester University Press

Indian burial grounds are a staple of American popular culture, and through their representation in fiction and film reach a global audience. In such narratives, ‘old Indian burial grounds’ are built over with houses, hotels, and other such dwellings... Read More about The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film.

Gothic Horror Fiction (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). Gothic Horror Fiction. In B. Santin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics (205-218). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030274.017

The horror novel appears in the late twentieth century as a significant genre of popular fiction. Growing out of older traditions of the European Gothic and weird fiction, and their trajectory through American literature, the horror novel has produce... Read More about Gothic Horror Fiction.

US Imperial Gothic (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). US Imperial Gothic. In R. Duncan (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic. Edinburgh University Press

Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror. In S. Bacon (Ed.), Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (13-26). Rowman & Littlefield

Heaping coals of fire on the enemy’s head: The political uses of Christian benevolence in the Civil War (2022)
Book Chapter
Williams, R. (2022). Heaping coals of fire on the enemy’s head: The political uses of Christian benevolence in the Civil War. In B. Offiler, & R. Williams (Eds.), American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving (17-32). Bloomsbury Publishing

Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic (2022)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (in press). Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic. In S. Ni Fhlainn, & B. M. Murphy (Eds.), Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This chapter is a survey of the evolution of weird fiction and how it relates to the Gothic in the twentieth century. It argues for an understanding of the mode in terms of its blending of genres and resistance to categorisation, emphasising publicat... Read More about Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic.

The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K., & Crofts, M. (in press). The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames. In A. Alcala Gonzalez, & C. H. Sederholm (Eds.), Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (213-226). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367713065

Manuel Aguirre’s The Closed Space: Horror Literature and Western Symbolism (1990) drew critical focus to the importance of enclosed spaces and Gothic literature; caverns, catacombs and labyrinths. For Aguirre ‘the world is defined in horror literatur... Read More about The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames.

Gone With the Winds That Never Were: The David O. Selznick Archive and Unmade Historical Cinema (2020)
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. (2020). Gone With the Winds That Never Were: The David O. Selznick Archive and Unmade Historical Cinema. In J. Fenwick, K. Foster, & D. Eldridge (Eds.), Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (39-56). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501351624.ch-002

Shaping the mass mind: Frederick Kiesler and the psychology of selling (2017)
Book Chapter
Haran, B. (2017). Shaping the mass mind: Frederick Kiesler and the psychology of selling. In A. J. Clarke, & E. Shapira (Eds.), Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture (63-76). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474275637.ch-004

This paper concerns theories around the ‘psychology of selling’ advanced in New York at the end of the 1920s by two figures with strong Viennese connections. Kiesler was an avant-garde polymath—an ‘International Constructivist’ De Stijl member who br... Read More about Shaping the mass mind: Frederick Kiesler and the psychology of selling.

'We're Only Kids Now, But Someday...': Hollywood Musicals and the Great Depression Youth Crisis' (2016)
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. (2016). 'We're Only Kids Now, But Someday...': Hollywood Musicals and the Great Depression Youth Crisis'. In I. Morgan, & P. John Davies (Eds.), Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s (216-238). Edinburgh University Press

Stoker, Poe, and American Gothic in ‘The Squaw’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2016). Stoker, Poe, and American Gothic in ‘The Squaw’. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic - Formations to Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan

Civil War Relief Agencies, the Union Soldier, and Healing the Union (2014)
Book Chapter
Williams, R. (2014). Civil War Relief Agencies, the Union Soldier, and Healing the Union. In M. Tanrisal, & T. E. Tunç (Eds.), The Health of the Nation (39-52). Universitätsverlag Winter

Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia (2013)
Book Chapter
Haran, B. (2013). Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia. In W. Carter, B. Haran, & F. J. Schwartz (Eds.), Re-New Marxist Art History (260-282). Art/Books Publishing

In 1931 the Russian-American artist Louis Lozowick travelled with members of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers to Tajikistan, one of the new Central Asian republics of the USSR. In Tajikistan, Lozowick chronicled the ‘sovietization’ of... Read More about Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia.

Magic windows: Friedrich Kiesler and department store constructivism (2013)
Book Chapter
Haran, B. (2013). Magic windows: Friedrich Kiesler and department store constructivism. In J. C. Welchman (Ed.), Sculpture and the Vitrine (69-94). Routledge

This paper concerns the use of Constructivist aesthetics by Friedrich Kiesler in window displays for Saks Fifth Avenue department store in New York in 1928. This event arguably concluded the dissipation of the revolutionary potential of Russian Const... Read More about Magic windows: Friedrich Kiesler and department store constructivism.

Filming Our Town (1940) or the problem of “looking at everything hard enough"
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. Filming Our Town (1940) or the problem of “looking at everything hard enough". . The University of Hull

Some like it hot and the virtues of not taking history too seriously
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. Some like it hot and the virtues of not taking history too seriously. . The University of Hull