Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces

by François Debrix

Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror's intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror's work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror's production of bodily fragments, both against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415741416
• ISBN13: 9780415741415
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages