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Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque

Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque

Raphael, Raphael
Siddique, Sophia

Hardcover

Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1137584165
ISBN13: 9781137584168
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 6 2017
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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' potentials to explore and perhaps to explode rigid cultural scripts of embodiment, including gender, race, and ability.

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