Body Gothic : Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Gothic Literary Studies
ISBN-10
1783160926
ISBN-13
9781783160921
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 15th, 2014
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 16.10 x 2.10 cms
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Body Gothic assesses the role and relevance of corporeal transgression in literature and film of the last three decades, from splatterpunk and body horror to torture porn and surgical horror.
Ever since horror became wildly popular in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainment. Xavier Aldana Reyes takes a different stance in Body Gothic, celebrating the transgressive qualities of this genre. Reyes considers relevant popular literary and filmic movements of the past three decades and reads them as updates in a long gothic tradition that goes back to the eighteenth century. Body Gothic contains case studies of key texts in splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn, and surgical horror.
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