26 research outputs found
Matthew Sterenberg. Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain: Meaning for Modernity. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 272. $90.00 (cloth).
No full textHarvey Kaye. The Powers of the Past: Reflections on the Crisis and the Promise of History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1991. Pp. vi, 202. $14.95 paper. - Harvey Kaye. The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall. 1992. Pp. xiv, 211. n.p.
No full textMichael de Cossart. George Melhuish, 1916â1985: Artist-Philosopher. Wolfeboro Falls, N.H.: Alan Sutton. 1990. Pp. ix, 246. 35.00.
No full textJames Epstein. In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 206. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-4788-1.
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âCLAP IF YOU BELIEVE IN SHERLOCK HOLMESâ: MASS CULTURE AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF MODERNITY, c. 1890âc. 1940
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âThe Name Is Sherlock Holmes, and the Address Is 221B Baker Streetâ: Virtual Reality, Fan Communities, and Tourism
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Uncanny Audio:The place and use of sound in Gothic performance
No full textThe Phantom of the Opera, the 1986 musical, is a Gothic megahit with a global appeal. Having been performed to audiences around the world, the musical has inspired a multitude of âPhansâ to extend the productionâs central theme of obsession beyond the auditorium walls and into their intertextual fan practices. That said, such responses stem from a narrative which is ultimately about fandom itself (where the Phantomâs obsession with Christine causes him to haunt, and even murder, the occupants of a fictional Paris opera house). Drawing from musical theatre, popular culture, and fan studies, this chapter argues that there is a direct correlation between the content and presentation of The Phantom of the Opera and the type of fan response it tends to evoke
