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Informationen zum Autor Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction:Horror now and then 1. Daddy's dead1.1 Gun of the father1.2 Beyond the paternal principle 1.3 Gothic times1.4 Candygothic 2. Tech noir2.1 Doom with a view 2.2 Gothic shocks 2.3 Reading machines2.4 Phantasmagoria 2.5 The small scream 3. Dark bodies3.1 An-aesthetics 3.2 Horreality 3.3 Black holes 4. Beyond the Gothic principle4.1 A child's game 4.2 Go-o-o-othic 4.3 Dark precursor4.4 To infinity and beyondReferencesIndex
