Aspasia Stephanou

Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781032178127
• ISBN-10: 1032178124
• Artikelnr.: 62574074

Autorenporträt

Aspasia Stephanou is an independent scholar who has written extensively on the gothic, cultural theory and media. Her publications include Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines (Palgrave 2014), Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary: Black Metal (2012) (with Steven Shakespeare, Ben Woodard and Eugene Thacker), and Transgression and Its Limits (co-edited, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A Study in Scarlet
2. Chapter 1: Typewriter Blood
3. Chapter 2: Inhuman Inscriptions in Contemporary Horror: Stephen
King's The
Shining and Kathe Koja's Fiction
4. Chapter 3: At the Heart of Darkness: Trauma and Women
5. Chapter 4: The Real of Cyberia: Dark Web, Red Rooms and Internet
Gothic
6. Chapter 5: Inhuman Materiality in Edgar Allan Poe's Stories
7. Chapter 6: Gothic Inhumanism
8. Conclusion: De Man's Red Room
9. Bibliography