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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Traditions in World Cinema xi
6. Introduction: International B-Movie Gothic 1
7. PART I AMERICA
8. 1. Its, Blobs and Things: Gothic Beings Out of Time 17
9. 2. Re-scripting Blaxploitation Horror: Ganja and Hess and the Gothic Mode 32
10. 3. Alucardas and Alucardos: Vampiric Obsessions, Gothic and Mexican Cult Horror Cinema 50
11. 4. Gothic Forests and Mangroves: Ecological Disasters in Zombio and Mangue Negro 64
12. PART II EUROPE
13. 5. Mummies, Vampires and Doppelgängers: Hammer’s B-Movies and Classic Gothic Fiction 83
14. 6. Fantaterror: Gothic Monsters in the Golden Age of Spanish B-Movie Horror, 1968–80 95
15. 7. Austro-trash, Class and the Urban Environment: The Politics of Das Ding aus der Mur and its Prequel 108
16. 8. Wither the Present, Wither the Past: The Low-budget Gothic Horror of Stockholm Syndrome Films 122
17. 9. Turkish B-Movie Gothic: Making the Undead Turkish in Ölüler Konuşmaz Ki 139
18. PART III AFRICA AND ASIA
19. 10. Filamu ya kutisha: Tanzanian Horror Films and B-Movie Gothic 157
20. 11. Psychopaths and Gothic Lolitas: Japanese B-Movie Gothic in Gen Takahashi’s Goth: Love and Death and Go Ohara’s Gothic & Lolita Psycho 172
21. 12. Hong Kong Gothic: Category III Films as Gothic Cinema 186
22. 13. B is for Bhayanak: Past, Present and Pulp in Bollywood Gothic 209
23. Notes on the Contributors 221
24. Index 225