Why We Love the Haunted Mansion: 19th Century Appropriations and the Topic of Death in Modern Gothic Narratives: Edward Gorey, Walt Disney, and Tim Burton

by K R Bailey

Overview

We love the Haunted Mansion as an entertaining dark ride, but does it also resonate with us for deeper reasons? K. R. Bailey suggests that it answers a fundamental need to approach the topic of death in a manner we find comfortable in what has been termed a "death-denying" culture. Bailey reaches into the Victorian era and its Celebration of Death to identify symbols that are close enough to have a dark meaning, but distant enough not to threaten, and discusses their use in the works of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, and Disney's Haunted Mansion ride.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781546976189
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/11/2017
Pages:	188
Sales rank:	1,054,609
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.43(d)