Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture – Gothic Studies, Memory & Popular Media Analysis
Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture is a scholarly ed
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Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture – Gothic Studies, Memory & Popular Media Analysis
Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture is a scholarly edited volume that examines how nostalgia, memory, and the Gothic imagination shape modern popular culture and political discourse.
Edited by Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, this academic book explores how contemporary media—from films and TV series to digital culture—reuses the past in distorted and “toxic” ways to influence identity, ideology, and cultural memory.
The collection connects Gothic theory with populism, media studies, horror culture, and memory politics, showing how imagined pasts continue to haunt the present in modern society.
✔ Academic study of Gothic theory & popular culture
✔ Focus on nostalgia, memory & cultural politics
✔ Explores film, TV, digital media & horror genres
✔ Connects Gothic studies with populism & ideology
✔ Interdisciplinary: literature, media & cultural studies
✔ Part of Palgrave Gothic academic series
Key topics include:
Gothic nostalgia and “toxic memory” theory
Horror films and TV (e.g., It, Stranger Things)
Populism and cultural memory politics
Digital culture and “weaponized nostalgia”
Trauma, haunting, and repetition in media
Identity formation through popular culture
The Gothic as a framework for modern society
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