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Laddar... Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror (utgåvan 2019)av W. Scott Poole (Författare)
VerksinformationWasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror av W. Scott Poole
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.   ) datrappert | Oct 6, 2022 |  But it never really expands on its central thesis, as it spins off into a passionate, engaging, and at times emotional manuscript on the horrors we inflict on each other, the rise of fascism, and it’s echoes today. All powerful stuff, but tangential to the advertised theme. (  ) gothamajp | Aug 26, 2022 |  ) poirotketchup | Mar 18, 2021 | This is one of the most intriguing histories of war and how it's influence has reached into every aspect of our lives to this day. I simply could not put this book down! Shannon Alden, Literati Bookstore (  ) ShannonRose4 | Sep 15, 2020 | I enjoyed this fluid, fluent recounting of the modern horror genre's explosion after the nightmarish experience of WWI. The rise of the film industry, its ability to offer a new take on the Gothic tale and meld it to the lived reality of millions...well, that's a tale worth telling. Poole told it well, but used a choppy technique that might be off-putting to some readers; it does feel a bit like reading someone's index cards for a high-school research paper. To me, it reinforced the currents in culture that Poole was highlighting, and allowed him to be pithy but thorough in making his points about the whys and wherefores of the evolution of Gothic stories into horror stories. At all events, it bums me out that I didn't write a real review months ago while this book's pleasures and strengths were fresh in my mind. Now I can't recapture that impetus. But I can and do say that anyone with more than a passing interest in horror storytelling would do well to read the text closely. ( )1  richardderus | Jun 23, 2019 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"The roots of modern horror are found in the First World War. It was the most devastating event to occur in the early 1900s, with 38 million dead and 17 million wounded in the most grotesque of ways, owing to the new machines brought to war. If Downton Abbey showed the ripple effect of this catastrophe above stairs, Wasteland reveals how it made its way into the darker corners of our psyche on the bloody battlefield, the screaming asylum, and desolated cities and villages. Historian W. Scott Poole chronicles the era's major figures and their influences--Freud, T.S. Eliot, H.P. Lovecraft, Wilfred Owen and Peter Lorre, David Cronenberg and Freddy Krueger--as well as cult favorites and the collective unconscious. Wasteland is a surprising--but wholly convincing--perspective on horror that also speaks to the audience for history, film, and popular culture. November 11th, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that brought the First World War to a close, and a number of smart and well-received recent histories have helped us reevaluate this conflict. Now W. Scott Poole takes us behind the frontlines of battle to the dark places of the imagination where the legacy of the war to end all wars lives on" -- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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