All Outputs (42)

The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon- Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America (2024)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (in press). The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon- Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America. Oxford Art Journal, 47(2),

This article examines the photographic representation of Angelo Herndon, a Black Communist who was arrested in 1932 in Atlanta through seldom-used Georgian anti-insurrection legislation. Herndon (aged 19) endured many months in jail and faced 18-20 y... Read More about The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon- Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America.

Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront (2024)
Book
Williams, R. (2024). Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront. Kent State University Press

Tabernacles in the Wilderness discusses the work of the United States Christian Commission (USCC), a civilian relief agency established by northern evangelical Protestants to minister to Union troops during the American Civil War. USCC workers saw in... Read More about Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront.

Heritage, Community, Trawling and Gold Nose: Towards a model for the creative producer in UK City of Culture 2017 (2024)
Thesis
Dankoff, L. (2023). Heritage, Community, Trawling and Gold Nose: Towards a model for the creative producer in UK City of Culture 2017. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4587958

The UK City of Culture 2017 in Hull serves as a useful archive to develop a new model for the Creative Producer, a designation of a new type of producer that recognises the remit and capabilities of contemporary producing practice. The title of UK Ci... Read More about Heritage, Community, Trawling and Gold Nose: Towards a model for the creative producer in UK City of Culture 2017.

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

High Waters: the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi Flood Disaster in Photographic Cultures (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hawksford White, S. (2023, April). High Waters: the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi Flood Disaster in Photographic Cultures. Paper presented at British Association for American Studies Annual Conference 2023, University of Keele

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

Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine (2023)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2023). Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 140-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2221919

On 25 March 1931 nine young African Americans were arrested in Alabama for the alleged rape of two White women, nearly lynched, sentenced to death and eventually incarcerated for years. This article examines the arrest photograph of the Scottsboro Ni... Read More about Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine.

The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt (2022)
Journal Article
Corstorphine, K. (in press). The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt. Studies in American Fiction, 49( Special Issue on the Ecogothic),

Ambrose Bierce’s short stories present Gothic visions of the colonial encounter with the American wilderness in a way that complicates notions of land ownership and the relationship of humans to the environment. In ‘The Damned Thing’ (1893), a seemin... Read More about The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt.

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

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving (2022)
Book
Offiler, B., & Williams, R. (Eds.). (2022). American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving. Bloomsbury Publishing

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad explores the different ways in which charities, voluntary associations, religious organisations, philanthropic foundations and other non-state actors have engaged with traditions of giving. Using examples from... Read More about American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving.

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 Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression (2022)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (in press). The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression. Arts, 11(2), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11020045

In 1931, Fortune published an article entitled ‘American Workingman’, a survey of labor in the midst of the worsening Depression, with an emblematic composite image of hands at work to indicate the manual character and the diverse jobs of industrial... Read More about The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression.

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.

Het Dorp: Experimental Incarceration (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kember, M. (2021, November). Het Dorp: Experimental Incarceration. Presented at Cultures of Incarceration Centre Research Series 2021/22, University of Hull

Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family: by Sara Georgini, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, Pp. 284, $34.95 (hbk), $21.59 (e-book), ISBN 9780190882587, ISBN 9780190882594 (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, R. (2020). Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family: by Sara Georgini, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, Pp. 284, $34.95 (hbk), $21.59 (e-book), ISBN 9780190882587, ISBN 9780190882594. American Nineteenth Century History, 21(2), 188-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2020.1789345

Documenting an ‘Age-Long Struggle’: Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest (2020)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2020). Documenting an ‘Age-Long Struggle’: Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest. Art History, 43(1), 120-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12472

This article examines the photographs that Paul Strand made in the American Southwest between 1930-32, marking his crystallization as a photographer of interconnected people, objects, and places. Using Group Theatre director Harold Clurman’s appellat... Read More about Documenting an ‘Age-Long Struggle’: Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest.

‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy (2019)
Journal Article
Corstorphine, K. (2019). ‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy. Gothic nature journal, 54-77

This article examines the waysin which the Gothic imagination has been used to convey the message of environmentalism, looking specifically at attempts to curb population growth, such as the video ‘Zombie Overpopulation’, produced by Population Matte... Read More about ‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy.

‘We Cover New York’: protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League (2019)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2019). ‘We Cover New York’: protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League. Arts, 8(2), 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020061

This article considers photographs of New York by two American radical groups, the revolutionary Workers Film and Photo League (WFPL) (1931–1936) and the ensuing Photo League (PL) (1936–1951), a less explicitly political concern, in relation to the a... Read More about ‘We Cover New York’: protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League.