Table of Contents
María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, "Introduction"
I. Genealogies of the Ghost
Julian Wolfreys, "Ghosts: Of Ourselves or, Drifting with Hardy, Heidegger, James, and Woolf"
Martin Harries, "Beckett's Ghost Light"
Peter Hitchcock, "Uncanny Marxism: Or, Do Androids Dream of Electric Lenin?"
Justin Sausman, "Where are the Dead? A Genealogy of Mediumship in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity"
Colin Davis, "The Skeptical Ghost: Alejandro Amenábar's The Others and the Returban of the Dead"
II. Spectral Politics of the Contemporary
Caroline Herbert, "National Hauntings: Specters of Socialism in Shree 420 and Deewar"
Georgiana Banita, "Shadow of the Colossus: The Spectral Lives of 9/11"
Esther Peeren, "Everyday Ghosts and the Ghostly Everyday in Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, and Achille Mbembe"
Michael Cuntz, "The Gentle Irruption of the Hereafter in This Life: Jean Echenoz's Au piano and Robin Campillo's Les revenants"
Benjamin D'Harlingue, "Specters of the U.S. Prison Regime: Haunting Tourism and the Penal Gaze"
III. Chasing Ghosts In(to) the 21st Century
Karen Williams, "The Liveness of Ghosts: Haunting and Reality TV"
Alissa Burger, "Ghost Hunters: Simulated Participation in Televisual Hauntings"
Catherine Spooner, "The Haunted Lecture Theater: Ghosts in the Academy in the BBC's Sea of Souls"
IV. Other Ghostly Spheres
Arno Meteling, "Genius Loci: Memory, Media, and the Neo-Gothic in Georg Klein and Elfriede Jelinek"
Christine Wilson, "Haunted Habitability: Wilderness and American Haunted House Narratives"
Bruno Lessard, "Gothic Affects: Digitally Haunted Houses and the Production of Affect-Value"
Alla Gadassik, "Ghosts in the Machine: The Body in Digital Animation"
Pamela Thurschwell, "The Ghost Worlds of Adolescence"
V. Ambient Ghosts: Spectral Images, Sounds, and Bodies
María del Pilar Blanco, "The Haunting of the Everyday in the Thoughtographs of Ted Serios"
Anthony Hutchison, "‘Following the Ghost': The Psychogeography of Alternative Country"
Isabella van Elferen, "Haunted by a Melody: Ghosts, Transgression, and Music in Twin Peaks"
Sean Somers, "Occultic Inscriptions: The Modern Ghost-Tattoo in Japan, from Kyôsai to Horiyoshi III"
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index