Fred Botting

Limits of horror

Technology, bodies, Gothic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a major re-evaluation of the role and cultural significance of Gothic horror. It offers analysis of literary, film, art and popular cultural texts and critical explanations of key terms (horror, uncanny etc.) to interrogate the contemporary and historical significance of monsters, vampires and ghosts in technological and consumer culture. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083655
• ISBN-10: 0719083656
• Artikelnr.: 29930997

Autorenporträt

Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction:Horror now and then 1. Daddy's dead 1.1 Gun
of the father 1.2 Beyond the paternal principle 1.3 Gothic times 1.4
Candygothic 2. Tech noir 2.1 Doom with a view 2.2 Gothic shocks 2.3 Reading
machines 2.4 Phantasmagoria 2.5 The small scream 3. Dark bodies 3.1
An-aesthetics 3.2 Horreality 3.3 Black holes 4. Beyond the Gothic principle
4.1 A child's game 4.2 Go-o-o-othic 4.3 Dark precursor 4.4 To infinity and
beyond References Index