Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Traditions in World Cinema

pp xi-xii

Introduction: International B-Movie Gothic

pp 1-14

PART I - AMERICA

pp 15-16

1 - Its, Blobs and Things: Gothic Beings Out of Time

pp 17-31

2 - Re-scripting Blaxploitation Horror: Ganja and Hess and the Gothic Mode

pp 32-49

3 - Alucardas and Alucardos: Vampiric Obsessions, Gothic and Mexican Cult Horror Cinema

pp 50-63

4 - Gothic Forests and Mangroves: Ecological Disasters in Zombio and Mangue Negro

pp 64-80

PART II - EUROPE

pp 81-82

5 - Mummies, Vampires and Doppelgängers: Hammer’s B-Movies and Classic Gothic Fiction

pp 83-94

6 - Fantaterror: Gothic Monsters in the Golden Age of Spanish B-Movie Horror, 1968–80

pp 95-107

7 - Austro-trash, Class and the Urban Environment: The Politics of Das Ding aus der Mur and its Prequel

pp 108-121

8 - Wither the Present, Wither the Past: The Low-budget Gothic Horror of Stockholm Syndrome Films

pp 122-138

9 - Turkish B-Movie Gothic: Making the Undead Turkish in Ölüler Konuşmaz Ki

pp 139-154

PART III - AFRICA AND ASIA

pp 155-156

10 - Filamu ya kutisha: Tanzanian Horror Films and B-Movie Gothic

pp 157-171

11 - Psychopaths and Gothic Lolitas: Japanese B-Movie Gothic in Gen Takahashi’s Goth: Love and Death and Go Ohara’s Gothic & Lolita Psycho

pp 172-185

12 - Hong Kong Gothic: Category III Films as Gothic Cinema

pp 186-208

13 - B is for Bhayanak: Past, Present and Pulp in Bollywood Gothic

pp 209-220

Notes on the Contributors

pp 221-224

Index

pp 225-236