Skin shows : gothic horror and the technology of monsters /

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In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as Silenc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halberstam, Jack, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Temas:
Horror tales, English > History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain.
Literature and technology > Great Britain.
Horror films > History and criticism.
Monsters in motion pictures.
Monsters in literature.
Récits d'horreur anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature frénétique > Grande-Bretagne.
Littérature et technologie > Grande-Bretagne.
Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique.
Monstres au cinéma.
Monstres dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror films.
Horror tales, English.
Literature and technology.
Griezelfilms.
Monsters.
Populaire cultuur.
Great Britain.
English fiction > Gothic novels
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity
  • Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde
  • Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia?
  • Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws
  • Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs
  • Conclusion: serial killing.

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