Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
ISBN-10
0822316633
ISBN-13
9780822316633
Category
Medical
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Judith Halberstam

Description

Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity -- Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia? -- Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws -- Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs -- Conclusion: serial killing.

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