The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginn

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In America as in Britain, the rise of the Gothic represented the other—the fearful shadows cast upon Enlightenment philosophies of common sense, democratic po

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Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance bet