The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media

John C. Tibbetts

Palgrave Macmillan US, Oct 20, 2011 - Social Science - 422 pages

This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and media.

About the author

Author John C. Tibbetts: John C. Tibbetts is Associate Professor of Film at the University of Kansas, USA. His has published sixteen books and his articles on film, literature, painting, theatre, and music have appeared in Notes, Film Comment, Opera News, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, Television, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Literature/Film Quarterly. He has previously worked as a broadcaster for National Public Radio, the Christian Science Monitor Radio Network, Voice of America, and CBS television. Both of his radio series, The World of Robert Schumann and Piano Portraits, have been heard worldwide on the WFMT broadcast network and National Public Radio. He was awarded the 2008 Kansas Governor's Arts in Education Award. Video and audio collections from his thirty years in broadcasting and education are currently being prepared for installation at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center in 2012.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media
• Author: John C. Tibbetts
• Contributor: Richard Holmes
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011
• ISBN: 0230118178, 9780230118171
• Length: 422 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / General; Social Science / Media Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General