CONTENTS // List of contributors page vii // Preface ix // Chronology: important "Gothic" events xii // Parti The Gothic and modernity // I Introduction: modernity and the proliferation of the Gothic 3 // JERROLD E. HOGLE // 2 Modernist Gothic 20 // JOHN PAUL RIQUELME // 3 Contemporary Gothic and the law 37 // SUSAN CHAPLIN // Part II The Gothic and the modern body // 4 Gothic configurations of gender 55 // AVRIL HORNER AND SUE ZLOSNIK // 5 The "queer limits” in the modern Gothic 71 // E. L. MCCALLUM // 6 Teen Gothic 87 // GLENNIS BYRON AND SHARON DEANS // Part III The Gothic and modern media // 7 Cinema of the Gothic extreme 107 // ELISABETH BRONFEN // V // CONTENTS // 8 American film noir 123 // CHARLES SCRUGGS // 9 Techno-Gothics of the early-twenty-first century 138 // ISABELLA VAN ELFEREN // Part IV Multicultural and global Gothic // io The Gothic and the politics of race 157 // MAISHA L. WESTER // 11 The Gothic in North American "subcultures” 174 // CARLOS GALLEGO // 12 The postcolonial Gothic 191 // KEN GELDER // 13 Asian Gothic 208 // KATARZYNA ANCUTA // 14 The Gothic and magical realism 224 // LUCIE ARMITT // Guide to further reading 240 // Guide to further viewing 252 // Index 255 // vi