Contemporary Body Horror

This Element explores body horror, a horror subgenre transformation, loss of control, and the human body's susceptibility to disease. It highlights its growth and ethical implications due to feminist, queer, and anti-racist practitioners' progressive vision, incorporating celebratory liberation and fantastic metamorphoses.

List of contents

1. Body horror, then and now; 2. Losing control; 3. Embodied identity; 4. Conclusion; Bibliographies (works cited); Notes.

Summary

This Element explores body horror, a horror subgenre transformation, loss of control, and the human body's susceptibility to disease. It highlights its growth and ethical implications due to feminist, queer, and anti-racist practitioners' progressive vision, incorporating celebratory liberation and fantastic metamorphoses.

Foreword

This Element studies body horror in the twenty-first century, focusing on the interactions between culture, representation, and biopolitics.

Product details

• Authors: Xavier Aldana Reyes, Xavier (Manchester Metropolitan Univ Aldana Reyes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009565165
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956516-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Elements in the Gothic
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Film, TV & radio, Classic horror & ghost stories, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories