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Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
. Ed(S): Raphael, Raphael; Siddique, Sophia
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hardcover. Editor(s): Raphael, Raphael; Siddique, Sophia. Num Pages: 246 pages, 13 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 467.
This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a political body, one that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it, to make it behave and conform. This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies’ ... Read more
This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a political body, one that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it, to make it behave and conform. This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies’ ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137584168
SKU
V9781137584168
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About . Ed(S): Raphael, Raphael; Siddique, Sophia
Sophia Siddique is Associate Professor in the Department of Film at Vassar College, USA. Her research interests include Singapore cultural studies; representations of trauma and memory in Cambodian, Indonesian and Thai cinema; and the impact of new media on Southeast Asia’s moving image culture. Sophia teaches film history, contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas and genres (horror and science fiction). Raphael ... Read more
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