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Author Halberstam, Jack, 1961-

Title Skin shows : gothic horror and the technology of monsters / Judith Halberstam
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1995

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 MELB  823.0872037 H1575/S  AVAILABLE
Description x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity -- 2. Making Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- 3. Gothic Surface, Gothic Depth: The Subject of Secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- 4. Technologies of Monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- 5. Reading Counterclockwise: Paranoid Gothic or Gothic Paranoia? -- 6. Bodies That Splatter: Queers and Chain Saws -- 7. Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs -- 8. Conclusion: Serial Killing
Analysis English fiction Gothic novels
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-209) and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-209) and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Horror films -- History and criticism.
Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
Literature and technology -- Great Britain.
Monsters in literature.
Monsters in motion pictures.
LC no. 95000948
ISBN 082231651X (cl : acid-free paper)
0822316633 (pa : acid-free paper)