Background
Ken Gelder was born on May 17, 1955 in England, United Kingdom to С. E. Gelder, a shopkeeper, and J. E. Gelder, a secretary.
University of Stirling FK9 4LA, United Kingdom
Ken received Ph.D from Stirling University in 1985.
University of Stirling FK9 4LA, United Kingdom
Ken received Ph.D from Stirling University in 1985.
(Gelder examines the vampire in its various film and narra...)
Gelder examines the vampire in its various film and narrative manifestations, placing the vampires in their cultural contexts. The author draws upon films such as Murnau's Nosferatu and books such as Anne Rice's historical vampire chronicles.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reading-Vampire-Popular-Fictions-Gelder/dp/0415080134/?tag=prabook0b-20
1994
(Horror has been one of the most spectacular and controver...)
Horror has been one of the most spectacular and controversial genres in both cinema and fiction - its wild excesses relished by some, vilified by many others. Often defiantly marginal, it nevertheless inhabits the very fabric of everyday life, providing us with ways of imagining and classifying our world; what is evil and what is good; what is monstrous and what is 'normal'; what can be seen and what should remain hidden. The Horror Reader brings together 29 key articles to examine the enduring resonance of horror across culture. Spanning the history of horror in literature and film and discussing texts from Britain, the United States, Europe, the Caribbean and Hong Kong, it explores a diversity of horror forms from classic gothic literature like Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, to contemporary serial killers, horror film fanzines and low-budget movies such as The Leech Woman and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Horror-Reader-Ken-Gelder/dp/0415213568/?tag=prabook0b-20
2000
(In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progr...)
In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide range of popular novelists, from Sir Walter Scott and Marie Corelli to Ian Fleming, J. K. Rowling and Stephen King, his book describes for the first time how this field works and what its unique features are. In addition, Gelder provides a critical history of three primary genres - romance, crime fiction and science fiction - and looks at the role of bookshops, fanzines and prozines in the distribution and evaluation of popular fiction. Finally, he examines five bestselling popular novelists in detail - John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Anne Rice, Jackie Collins and J. R. R. Tolkien - to see how popular fiction is used, discussed and identified in contemporary culture.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Popular-Fiction-Logics-Practices-Literary/dp/0415356474/?tag=prabook0b-20
2004
(This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful b...)
This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful book brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures, from the early work of the Chicago School on ‘deviant’ social groups to the present day reasearch and theories. This new edition features a wide range of articles from some of the biggest names in the field including Dick Hebdige, Paul Gilroy and Stanley Cohen, and expertly combines contemporary essays and critique with classic and canonical texts on subcultures. Examining an eclectic array of subcultures, from New Age travellers, to comic book fans, The Reader looks at how they are defined through their social position, styles, sexuality, politics and their music, and this new edition gives expression to the diversity of subcultural identifications, from scenes and ‘tribes’ to the ‘global underground’. With specially selected articles, grouped sections, editors introductions and a general introduction which maps out the field, it gives students and teachers of cultural studies an invaluable study aid.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Subcultures-Reader-Ken-Gelder/dp/0415344166/?tag=prabook0b-20
2005
(This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, cov...)
This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some way non-conforming or dissenting. They are social - with their own shared conventions, values, rituals, and so on - but they can also seem ‘immersed’ or self-absorbed. This book identifies six key ways in which subcultures have generally been understood: through their often negative relation to work: idle, parasitical, hedonistic, criminal their negative or ambivalent relation to class their association with territory - the ‘street’, the ‘hood’, the club - rather than property their movement away from home into non-domestic forms of ‘belonging’ their ties to excess and exaggeration (as opposed to restraint and moderation) their refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and in particular, of massification. Subcultures looks at the way these features find expression across many different subcultural groups: from the Ranters to the riot grrrls, from taxi dancers to drag queens and kings, from bebop to hip hop, from dandies to punk, from hobos to leatherfolk, and from hippies and bohemians to digital pirates and virtual communities. It argues that subcultural identity is primarily a matter of narrative and narration, which means that its focus is literary as well as sociological. It also argues for the idea of a subcultural geography: that subcultures inhabit places in particular ways, their investment in them being as much imaginary as real and, in some cases, strikingly utopian.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Subcultures-Cultural-Histories-Social-Practice/dp/0415379520/?tag=prabook0b-20
2007
https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Celebration-Australian-Fiction-1989-2007/dp/0522855970/?tag=prabook0b-20
2009
(New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contempo...)
New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining. Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer - films that seemed for a moment to take vampire cinema in completely opposite directions. New Vampire Cinema then examines what happened afterwards, across a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust), South Korea (Thirst), New Zealand (Perfect Creature), Australia (Daybreakers), and elsewhere. In a series of exhilarating readings, Gelder determines what is at stake when the cinematic vampire and the modern world are made to encounter one another - where the new, the remake and the sequel find the vampire struggling to survive the past, the present and, in some cases, the distant future.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Vampire-Cinema-Bfi-Gelder/dp/1844574407/?tag=prabook0b-20
2012
(Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and...)
Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and magazines that helped to create an exuberant literary landscape. They were filled with lively contributions by many of the key writers and provocateurs of the day (and of the future). Writers such as Marcus Clarke, Rolf Boldrewood, Ethel Turner, and Katharine Susannah Prichard published for the first time in these journals. This book offers a fascinating selection of material; a miscellany of content that enabled the 'free play of intellect' to thrive and, matched with wry visual design, made attractive artifacts that demonstrate the role this period played in the growth of an Australian literary culture.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colonial-Journals-Emergence-Australian-Literary/dp/1742584977/?tag=prabook0b-20
2014
(This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fi...)
This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and Quebecois science fiction. It also examines the production, reproduction and distribution of popular fiction as it carves out space for itself in transnational marketplaces and across different media entertainment systems; and it discusses the careers of popular authors and the various investments in popular fiction by readers and fans. This book will be indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in this prolific but highly distinctive literary field.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Directions-Popular-Fiction-Distribution/dp/113752345X/?tag=prabook0b-20
2016
Ken Gelder was born on May 17, 1955 in England, United Kingdom to С. E. Gelder, a shopkeeper, and J. E. Gelder, a secretary.
Ken graduated from Flinders University of South Australia with Bachelor's degree (with honors) in 1981 and received Ph.D from Stirling University in 1985.
Ken became the reader in English at University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1989.
(New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contempo...)
2012(This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful b...)
2005(Horror has been one of the most spectacular and controver...)
2000(In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progr...)
2004(This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fi...)
2016(Gelder examines the vampire in its various film and narra...)
1994(Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and...)
2014(This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, cov...)
2007Ken has a Social Democratic political views.
Ken married Hannah Rother on November 14, 1982. They have two children: Christian and Julian.
