Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

by J. Jack Halberstam

Book Overview

In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as Silence of the Lambs , Texas Chainsaw Massacre , and Candyman , Skin Shows understands the Gothic as a versatile technology, a means of producing monsters that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822316633
• ISBN13: 9780822316633
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"