This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal...
This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s abjection, disg...
This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siecle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With illustrative case studies, Aldana Reyes demonstrates how the Gothic mode has been a permanent yet ever-shifting fixture of the literary and cinematic landscape of Spain since the late-eighteenth century. He proposes that writers and filmmakers alike welcomed the Gothic as a liberating and transgressive...
This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romant...
