Overview
- First book to focus on the Gothic whilst exploring a diverse range of body parts across film and literature
- The chapters break the body into separate parts and explore each one through clear and original case studies
- Presents a set of unique examinations that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present and from Jane Webb to David Cronenberg
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
Keywords
- Body horror
- Gothic body
- body parts on screen
- eyes on screen
- genitalia in film
- representations of the brain
- representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction
- Horror
- teeth in film
- representations of hands
- skin on screen
- the stomach in film
- limbs on screen
- organs on screen
- bones on screen
- Freddy Krueger
- The Greasy Strangler
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Reviews
“The range of this book — across literature, film and television — is truly extraordinary. An excellent addition to the literature on Gothic physicality, and one well informed by the necessary scientific and medical knowledge.” (David Punter, University of Bristol, UK)
“A masterly and compelling autopsy of text and film, with cutting edge approaches to the Gothic corporeal.”(Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
“This is a wonderful book, one that fills a longstanding gap in horror and Gothic studies. A thumpinggood read for a dark and stormy night.” (Joan Hawkins, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
“Meticulously researched and well written, Gothic Dissections is a deliberate act of dismemberment and rich combinations.” (Gina Wisker, University of Brighton, UK)
“A thrilling dissective approach to the Gothic. Readers will prize the dizzying range of body parts on display.” (Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, University of Toulouse II, France)
“Gothic Dissections is as lively as it is systematic and comprehensive. The first to analyse Gothic culture from the perspective of the body’s anatomical features, the book spans a splendid range of disciplinary perspectives and media and cultural forms.” (Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
“The body under investigation here is not the monolithic and integrated ‘Gothic body’ of earlier scholarship but the torn and dismembered body of the autopsy table; the authors’ critical attention as exacting as the process of anatomical dissection itself.” (Dale Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ian Conrich is Honorary Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is an author or editor of fourteen books, including Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema (2009) and The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (2005).
Laura Sedgwick is studying for a PhD in Film and Gothic Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is co-editor of ‘Islands and Film’, a special issue of the journal Post Script.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature
Book Subtitle: The Body in Parts
Authors: Ian Conrich, Laura Sedgwick
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-30358-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30357-8Published: 20 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30358-5Published: 06 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 296
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film Theory, Film History, Literary Theory, Genre