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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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction:Horror now and then
1. Daddy’s dead
1.1 Gun of the father
1.2 Beyond the paternal principle
1.3 Gothic times
1.4 Candygothic
2. Tech noir
2.1 Doom with a view
2.2 Gothic shocks
2.3 Reading machines
2.4 Phantasmagoria
2.5 The small scream
3. Dark bodies
3.1 An-aesthetics
3.2 Horreality
3.3 Black holes
4. Beyond the Gothic principle
4.1 A child’s game
4.2 Go-o-o-othic
4.3 Dark precursor
4.4 To infinity and beyond
References
Index

Limits of Horror Technology Bodies Gothic

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/4/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719083655, 978-0719083655
      ISBN10: 0719083656

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction:Horror now and then
      1. Daddy’s dead
      1.1 Gun of the father
      1.2 Beyond the paternal principle
      1.3 Gothic times
      1.4 Candygothic
      2. Tech noir
      2.1 Doom with a view
      2.2 Gothic shocks
      2.3 Reading machines
      2.4 Phantasmagoria
      2.5 The small scream
      3. Dark bodies
      3.1 An-aesthetics
      3.2 Horreality
      3.3 Black holes
      4. Beyond the Gothic principle
      4.1 A child’s game
      4.2 Go-o-o-othic
      4.3 Dark precursor
      4.4 To infinity and beyond
      References
      Index

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