Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film

by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Ever since horror became wildly popular in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainment. Xavier Aldana Reyes takes a different stance in Body Gothic, celebrating the transgressive qualities of this genre. Reyes considers relevant popular literary and filmic movements of the past three decades and reads them as updates in a long gothic tradition that goes back to the eighteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783160926
• ISBN13: 9781783160921
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"