The Cambridge history of the Gothic edited by Angela Wright (University of Sheffield) Dale Townshend (Manchester Metropolitan University) ; Volume 3: Gothic in the twentieth and twenty first centuries The third volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic is the first book to provide an in depth history of Gothic literature film television and culture in the twentieth and twenty first centuries (c. 1896 present). Identifying key historical shifts from the birth of film to the threat of apocalypse leading international scholars offer comprehensive coverage of the ideas events movements and contexts that shaped the Gothic as it entered a dynamic period of diversification across all forms of media. Twenty three chapters plus an extended introduction provide in depth accounts of topics including Modernism war postcolonialism psychoanalysis counterculture feminism AIDS neo liberalism globalisation multiculturalism the war on terror and environmental crisis. Provocative and cutting edge this will be an essential reference volume for anyone studying modern and contemporary Gothic culture