{"product_id":"blue-light-of-the-screen-isbn-9781913462055","title":"Blue Light of the Screen","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, \u003ci\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, \u003ci\u003eBlue Light of the Screen \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, \u003ci\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.\"Part memoir, part philosophical rumination, \u003ci\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to the darkness inside and out... and to the flickering light of the screens around which we cluster, seeking not warmth but truth\" —\u003cb\u003eStephen Susco\u003c\/b\u003e, screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eThe Grudge, The Grudge 2, Unfriended: Dark Web\u003c\/i\u003e; director of \u003ci\u003eUnfriended: Dark Web\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An original, compelling and genuinely unclassifiable book that is by turns insightful, moving and disturbing — as well as an informative introduction to cinematic horror.\" —\u003cb\u003eFrancis Young\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is a different kind of book. Cronin allows not just one voice to speak, but a legion of voices: critical but confessional, filled with dread and then a strange euphoria, marred by faith yet undermined by reason... This is critical theory as demonic possession.\" - \u003cb\u003eEugene Thacker\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Resignation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Dust of This Planet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Equal parts memoir, genre study, and family melodrama, Cronin’s book suggests that the ghost isn’t out there in the world to be found so much as an internal force to be confronted, a composite of memory and metaphysics that issues from the borderlands of trauma, melancholy, faith, and (media) fictions unique to every haunted individual.\" — \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Sconce\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHaunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television and the Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eA striking memoir of a demon-haunted life... Cronin elegantly articulates the way horror (from the art house to the grindhouse) is often the most personal genre, leaving its viewers with powerful metaphors to decode the sometimes even more terrifying world on the other side of the screen.\u003ci\u003e” - \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRodney Ascher\u003c\/b\u003e, director of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoom 237\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A dreamlike, at times hallucinatory journey through memory and nightmare. Cronin's fragmentary approach takes a litany of horror movies as grist to explore deeper questions of uncanny belief. A strange and thoroughly enjoyable read.\" - \u003cb\u003eColin Dickey\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGhostland: An American History in Haunted Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Cronin\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and musician currently based in California. She has published poetry and nonfiction and is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eA Spirit is a Mood Without a Body\u003c\/i\u003e. As a musician, Cronin has released records on independent labels, toured nationally, and been featured in \u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe FADER\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301369762021,"sku":"NP9781913462055","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781913462055.jpg?v=1767722836","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/blue-light-of-the-screen-isbn-9781913462055","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}