Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God by Claire Cronin (English)

Description: Blue Light of the Screen by Claire Cronin Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the authors obsession with horror and the supernatural. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the authors obsession with horror and the supernatural.Blue Light of the Screen is a creative-critical memoir of the authors lifelong obsession with the horror genre. To that end, the book explores depression, visual culture, trauma, religious belief, and ideas of spectrality. It sits between autobiography and cultural criticism and also contains lists and hand-drawn illustrations of horror movie scenes.Importantly, Blue Light of the Screen is not only a book about horror, it is itself a work of horror. It aims to unsettle readers through its status as a memoir that is also a ghost story, and therefore follows the formal tendencies of the Victorian ghost story and twentieth-century "weird" tale. The book employs fragmentation and narrative omissions, inset stories, shifting viewpoints and temporalities, and ambiguous conclusions. Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism within a larger personal story about growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts.As an experimental memoir, Blue Light of the Screen positions the author as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the authors conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural. Author Biography Claire Cronin is a writer and musician who currently lives in the Bay Area. She is the author of the poetry chapbook A Spirit is a Mood Without a Body and has published poetry and nonfiction in an array of journals. As a musician, Cronin has released two records on independent labels, toured nationally, and been featured in major music publications like Pitchfork, Stereogum, and Fader. Cronin has an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She continues to research horror, twentieth-century American poetry, and the occult. Review "Part memoir, part philosophical rumination, Blue Light of the Screen is a love letter to the darkness inside and out...and the flicking light of the screens around which we cluster, seeking not warmth but truth." "Blue Light of the Screen is an original, compelling and genuinely unclassifiable book that is by turns insightful, moving and disturbing - as well as an informative introduction to cinematic horror." "A book written from deep within the horror genre, Cronins Blue Light of the Screen annuls the distinction between confession and possession." "A poetic and highly personal account of the ghosts that chase us." "A striking memoir of a demon-haunted life. Cronin elegantly articulates the way horror (from the art house to the grind house) is often the most personal genre, leaving its viewers with powerful metaphors to decode the sometimes even more terrifying world on the other side of the screen." "A dreamlike, at times hallucinatory journey through memory and nightmare. Cronins fragmentary approach takes a litany of horror movies as grist to explore deeper questions of uncanny belief. A strange and thoroughly enjoyable read." Promotional Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the authors obsession with horror and the supernatural. Review Quote "Part memoir, part philosophical rumination, Blue Light of the Screen is a love letter to the darkness inside and out...and the flicking light of the screens around which we cluster, seeking not warmth but truth." -- Stephen Susco , screenwriter of The Grudge, The Grudge 2, Unfriended: Dark Web ; director of Unfriended: Dark Web " Blue Light of the Screen is an original, compelling and genuinely unclassifiable book that is by turns insightful, moving and disturbing -- as well as an informative introduction to cinematic horror. -- Francis Young , author of A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity "A book written from deep within the horror genre, Cronins Blue Light of the Screen annuls the distinction between confession and possession." - Eugene Thacker , Infinite Resignation and In the Dust of This Planet "A poetic and highly personal account of the ghosts that chase us." -- Jeffrey Sconce , author of Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television and the Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity "A striking memoir of a demon-haunted life. Cronin elegantly articulates the way horror (from the art house to the grind house) is often the most personal genre, leaving its viewers with powerful metaphors to decode the sometimes even more terrifying world on the other side of the screen." - Rodney Ascher , screenwriter of Room 237 and The Nightmare "A dreamlike, at times hallucinatory journey through memory and nightmare. Cronins fragmentary approach takes a litany of horror movies as grist to explore deeper questions of uncanny belief. A strange and thoroughly enjoyable read." - Colin Dickey , author of Ghostland Promotional "Headline" Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the authors obsession with horror and the supernatural. Details ISBN1913462056 Author Claire Cronin Year 2020 ISBN-10 1913462056 ISBN-13 9781913462055 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-10-13 Language English Short Title Blue Light of the Screen Subtitle On Horror, Ghosts, and God Pages 232 UK Release Date 2020-10-13 Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-10-13 NZ Release Date 2020-10-13 Publisher Watkins Media Limited Edition Description New edition Imprint Repeater Books DEWEY 782.421649092 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145111364;

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