Limits of horror
Technology, bodies, Gothic
Horror isn't what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. Limits of horror, moving from gothic to cybergothic, through technological modernity and across a range of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts, critically examines these changes and the questions they pose for understanding contemporary culture and subjectivity.Re-examining key concepts such as the uncanny, the sublime, terror, shock and abjection i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84779-716-2
- EAN: 9781847797162
- Produktnummer: 32349602
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'047 KB
Über den Autor
Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University.
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