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Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 290
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 August 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837655599
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
Rahel Sixta Schmitz, born in 1991, earned her doctorate in cultural studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany in 2020. Her research focuses on Gothic fiction across all narrative media, especially Gothic in the late twentieth and twenty-first century.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Figures 7
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction: The Age of Virus Anxiety 11
1. The Virus, the Network, and the Supernatural Media Virus 39
2. Ghostwatch and the Advent of the Network Society 83
3. House of Leaves, the Network Paradigm, and the Abstract Supernatural Media Virus 115
4. The Moral Dimension of the Supernatural Media Virus in the Ring Franchise 155
5. The Digital Supernatural Media Virus and the Network Apocalypse in Kairo and Pulse 205
Conclusions: Future Mutations of the Supernatural Media Virus 249
Bibliography 269