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Blue Light of the Screen
Claire Cronin
其他書名
On Horror, Ghosts, and God
出版
Watkins Media
, 2020-10-13
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Literary Criticism / Horror & Supernatural
Fiction / Horror
ISBN
1913462056
9781913462055
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JBmREAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Blue Light of the Screen
is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural.
Blue Light of the Screen
is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night.
A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre,
Blue Light of the Screen
embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts.
As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way,
Blue Light of the Screen
tells the story of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural.
Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory,
Blue Light of the Screen
is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.