ISBN:
9781137303585
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 296 p. 30 illus., 27 illus. in color, online resource)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Gothic
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Conrich, Ian Gothic dissections in film and literature
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Culture Study and teaching
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Cultural and Media Studies
;
Motion pictures History
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Motion pictures
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Film genres
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Literature Philosophy
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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Horror films
;
Human body in literature
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Human body in motion pictures
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Gothic novel
;
Schauerroman
;
Horrorfilm
;
Körperteil
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body-from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach-this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body horror’, Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present; from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and The Greasy Strangler.
Abstract:
1. Introduction -- 2. The Brain -- 3. Head and Face -- 4. Eyes -- 5. Ears and Nose -- 6. Teeth -- 7. The Tongue, Mouth, and Lips -- 8. Hair and Fingernails -- 9. Hands -- 10. Feet and Limbs -- 11. Bones -- 12. Skin -- 13. The Heart -- 14. Genitalia -- 15. The Uterus -- 16. The Stomach, Intestines, and the Anus -- 17. Epilogue
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-30358-5
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