Autore
Heholt, Ruth

Titolo
Subversive Ghost Hunting: A-Technology, the Imagination and the Gothic Spaces of Most Haunted
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 25 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 37 - Pagina finale: 48

This paper looks at Living TV's popular ghost hunting programme Most Haunted. Immersed in Gothic imagery, Most Haunted may be seen as styleover substance. However, I argue that the text is actually firmly rooted inthe tradition of subversion and Victorian Spiritualism. Most Haunted isabout imaginatively transporting the viewer into its Gothic spaces throughlow-tech production values and a distinct and apparent amateurism. Most Haunted invites the audience into these Gothic spaces precisely throughthis almost rigid refusal of expertise, technological wonder and proficiency.Most Haunted subverts the elitist and masculine traditions of ghost hunting,creating a new contemporary Gothic space which returns to a more rowdy,sensational and distinctly working class tradition of popular ghost hunts.Most Haunted displays a happy irreverence and this paper argues that itreturns the Gothic to where it should be - out of the bourgeois and backinto popular culture.



SICI: 1824-3967(2012)25:3<37:SGHATI>2.0.ZU;2-M
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