{"product_id":"claire-cronin-blue-light-of-the-screen","title":"Claire Cronin: Blue Light of the Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRepeater, 2020, softcover, 232 pages, 13.1 x 19.6 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about what it means to be afraid about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA creative-critical memoir of the author s obsession with the horror genre, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue Light of the Screen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story of the author s conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55823233155456,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/51HBcSUBkFL._SY445_SX342_ML2.jpg?v=1776160923","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/claire-cronin-blue-light-of-the-screen","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}