The Spectral West

The Spectral WestThis book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.

This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies

the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a par with those of European socialists and communists

The second part of this volume

The documents

commerce and journalism

the author proposes a new theory of the “extended self” as a product of the coevolution of humankind and technology

this book examines how these processes have been contingent on a web of expertise informed by a rich and varied array of authors and contexts since the 1800s

Latin America

pioneering

including comedy

this book also contributes to the ongoing debate on representing the crisis

globalization and postmodernity