Title: The Gothic tradition in Supernatural : essays on the television series /
Authors: Edmundson, Melissa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Supernatural (Television program : 2005-2020); Supernatural (Television program : 2005-2020)
Contents: Pt. 1. Gothic tropes and traditions -- Gothic anxieties; then and now: a post/9/11 examination of the gothic / Alexandra Lykissas -- The automobile as moving castle / -- Thomas Knowles -- Shadows of hope: Gothic motifs and nihilism / Dana Fore -- Pt. 2. Gothic storytelling -- "You can't spell subtext without 'S-E-X'": Gothic intertextuality and the (Queer) uncanny / Jamil Mustafa -- "I know everything that's going to happen": the self-reflexive ccompulsion to repeat (with a difference) / Michael Fuchs -- Gothic imaginings: folkloric roots / Daniel P. Compora -- Pt. 3. Gothic women: heroes and victims -- Coloniality and the Chicana Gothic: travelling myths in the pilot / Annabeth Leow Hui Min -- Wearing the woman in white: the doomed lives and afterlives of women / E.J. Nielsen -- "What's up, bitches?" Charlie Bradbury as Gothic heroine / Ashley Walton -- Pt. 4. Gothic others: monstrous selves "we've all been demons": postmodern Gothic and the fragmented self / Jessica Seymour -- "Sympathy for the Devil": the neutralization of traditionally evil figures / Samantha J. Vertosick -- "Psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent": incest and the Gothic other / Megan Fowler -- "It's possible we all have a little monster in us": Dean Winchester, the mark of Cain and the new monster paradigm / Lisa Schmidt -- About the contributors.