Contemporary body horror / Xavier Aldana Reyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldana Reyes, Xavier, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Gothic 2634-8721.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Gothic, 2634-8721

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--Italy--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Human body in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Body horror', a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body's susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply, body horror acts out the power flows of modern life, visualising often imperceptible or ignored processes of marginalisation and behavioural policing, and revealing how interrelations between different social spheres (medical, legal, political, educational) produce embodied identity. This book offers the first sustained study of the types of body horror that have been popular in the twenty-first century and centres on the representational and ideological work they carry out. It proposes that, thanks to the progressive vision of feminist, queer and anti-racist practitioners, this important subgenre has expanded its ethical horizons and even found a sense of celebratory liberation in fantastic metamorphoses redolent of contemporary activist movement

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2024).

ISBN:

9781009280945

1009280945

9781009280983

1009280988

9781009280976

100928097X

OCLC:

1461817935