I’m thrilled to announce the official publication of Gothic Remixed: Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture!
This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. In it, I argue that popular remix creations are the ‘monsters’ of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir’s Flux Machine GIFs.
There will be a public, joint launch event at The Second Shelf bookshop in London on 14 November 2019. Tickets are available through Eventbrite at this link.
A 35% launch discount is also available: please send an e-mail to m.j.de-bruin-mole@soton.ac.uk or order online using the discount code GLR MP8.
If you’d like to request a review copy, please get in touch with Vivien Quick: Vivien.Quick@bloomsbury.com.