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Published: Dec 12, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi25.49

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Yannick Bellenger-Morvan
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CIRLEP
Marine Galiné
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CIRLEP

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This publication is part of a wider project that aims to further Chloe Buckley and Catherine Spooner’s work on the Gothic in respectively children’s fiction (Buckley, 2019) and the “teen-marketing machine” of the post-millennial Gothic (Spooner, 2017: 84) by exploring the multifaceted connections between children and teenagers and contemporary Gothic productions. In that respect, young adults and children are to be understood as either the primary targets of those literary, television and film productions or as the fictional constructs around which the Gothic plot is articulated. Our project is therefore located at the crossroads of fan culture studies and generic studies, between reception and production, just like the contemporary Gothic productions we are interested in jeopardise the commonly assumed superiority of content (the Gothic story) over form (the Gothic look). Since recent Goth pop productions blur the lines between rewriting and ‘cashing in’ on over-used motifs, while relentlessly advocating for cultural and generic hybridity, one may wonder to what extent the child and teenage figure is both the herald and the consumer of this rebranding of Gothic popular culture.

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Bellenger-Morvan, Y., & Galiné, M. (2023). Introduction. Imaginaires, (25), 7-10. https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi25.49
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No. 25 (2023): Gothic, Teen, and Pop Culture
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Author Biographies

Yannick Bellenger-Morvan, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CIRLEP

Yannick Bellenger-Morvan is Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France. She has published about twenty peer-reviewed academic papers on popular culture for children, teenagers, and young adults. She co-edited a collection of essays on Children’s literature and Popular Cultural Identity (Reims University Press, 2016). Her latest publications include articles on Jim Henson’s TV series Fraggle Rock (in Children, Youth and American Television, Routledge, 2018) and on animated film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s novels (Les Cahiers Robinson, Artois University Press, April 2020). She also edited an annotated and critical translation of Victorian author George MacDonald’s fairy tales (George MacDonald, La Princesse légère et autres contes, Héritages Critiques, vol. IX, Reims University Press, 2019). She is general editor of the academic journal Imaginaires.

Marine Galiné, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CIRLEP

Marine Galiné holds a Ph.D. in Irish studies entitled “The representation of women and femininity in nineteenth-century Irish gothic fiction”. She is a teaching fellow in English at the Campus des Comtes de Champagne (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne). She is also interested in the transdisciplinary use of the gothic in films and series. She is a member of the SOFEIR (French society of Irish Studies) and SAES (French Society of University teachers of English) in France, and of the IGA (International Gothic Association). Her recent publications include “The 1798 Rebellion: Gender Tensions and Femininity in the Irish Gothic” (Review of Irish Studies in Europe 2.2 [2018]) and “Liminality and generic playfulness in Gerald Griffin’s ‘The Brown Man’ (1827)” (in The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique [Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021]). She has also published on William Carleton’s “Wildgoose Lodge” (1834), Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2016) and co-edited a collection of postgraduate essays on the topic of “body and crisis” at the Presses Universitaires de Reims in 2018.