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Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
J. Jack Halberstam
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Description for Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: APF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
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 Silence of the Lambs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Candyman, Skin Shows understands the Gothic as a versatile technology, a means of producing monsters that is constantly being rewritten by historically and culturally conditioned fears generated by a shared sense of otherness and difference.
Deploying feminist and queer approaches to the monstrous body, Halberstam ... Read more
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 Silence of the Lambs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Candyman, Skin Shows understands the Gothic as a versatile technology, a means of producing monsters that is constantly being rewritten by historically and culturally conditioned fears generated by a shared sense of otherness and difference.
Deploying feminist and queer approaches to the monstrous body, Halberstam ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
733g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822316633
SKU
V9780822316633
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About J. Jack Halberstam
Judith Halberstam is Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
“Halberstam’s argument is elegant in its simplicity, but far-reaching in its implications. Providing a strikingly original account of the Gothic, she proposes through her work a cultural history of fear and prejudice and, thus, paves the way for a new scholarly enterprise."—Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas, Austin "Skin Shows is the Gothic book that many of us have been waiting ... Read more