Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film

✍ Scribed by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Publisher: University of Wales Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Back Cover
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From Gothic Bodies to Body Gothic
1 Splatterpunk
2 Body Horror
3 The New Avant-pulp
4 The Slaughterhouse Novel
5 Torture Porn
6 Surgical Horror
Conclusion: Corporeal Readings
Notes
Works Cited
Filmography
Index

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