Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic
Fred Botting
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Paperback. .
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719083655
SKU
V9780719083655
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99-15
About Fred Botting
Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University -- .
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