All Outputs (51)

'Co(s)mic Horror' (2013)
Book Chapter
Murray, C., & Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'Co(s)mic Horror'. In D. Simmons (Ed.), New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft (157-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137320964_10

H. P. Lovecraft, personally unassuming, hostile to modernity and pessimistic to the last, is perhaps an unlikely author to have inspired a cult global following, yet as Stephen Jones points out, “his relatively small body of work has influenced count... Read More about 'Co(s)mic Horror'.

'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.' (2013)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.'. In A. Heise-Von Der Lippe (Ed.), Dark cartographies: exporing Gothic spaces (61-67). Inter-Disciplinary Press. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880993_008

This is a chapter (5535 words) that has been completed and accepted for a forthcoming collection to be published with Rodopi Press. It is a reading of two Gothic novels. It is completed and has been accepted. No title has been given as yet but the vo... Read More about 'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.'.

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.

'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier (2013)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier. In A. Smith, & W. Hughes (Eds.), EcoGothic (120-133). Manchester University Press

This chapter examines the development of wilderness Gothic through the nineteenth century, looking at responses to the environment in the literary and political imagination. It focuses on Ambrose Bierce, whose Gothic horror tales offer an insight int... Read More about 'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier.

Britain finds Andy Hardy: British cinema audiences and the American way of life in the Second World War (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eldridge, D. Britain finds Andy Hardy: British cinema audiences and the American way of life in the Second World War

Machine, montage, and myth: Experimental cinema and politics of American modernism during the Great Depression (2011)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2011). Machine, montage, and myth: Experimental cinema and politics of American modernism during the Great Depression. Textual Practice, 25(3), 563-584. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2011.569177

This article looks at the film journal Experimental Cinema in relation to the radical Workers Film and Photo League

Homeless houses: Classifying Walker Evans's photographs of Victorian architecture (2010)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2010). Homeless houses: Classifying Walker Evans's photographs of Victorian architecture. Oxford Art Journal, 33(2), 189-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcq015

This article examines images of Victorian houses by Walker Evans in relation to the theory of the archive

American culture in the 1930s (2008)
Book
Eldridge, D. (2008). American culture in the 1930s. Edinburgh University Press

A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.

The generic American psycho (2008)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D. (2008). The generic American psycho. Journal of American Studies, 42(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875807004355

Following Elizabeth Young's 1991 analysis of the controversy surrounding the publication of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, this article discusses the efforts of the makers of the 2000 film adaptation to "rehabilitate" the novel. It explores the... Read More about The generic American psycho.

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". In Modern American drama on screen. 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. In Hollywood and the American historical film. The University of Hull