Limits of horror: Technology, bodies, Gothic

Fred Botting

doi:10.7765/9781847794505

Horror is not what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last 200 years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. This book, moving from gothic to cybergothic, through technological modernity and across a range of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts, critically examines these changes and the questions they pose for understanding contemporary culture and subjectivity. Re-examining key concepts such as the uncanny, the sublime, terror, shock and abjection in terms of their bodily and technological implications, it advances current critical and theoretical debates on Gothic horror to propose a new theory of cultural production based on an extensive discussion of Sigmund Freud's idea of the death drive.

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Introduction: Horror now and then
pp 1-14

1 - Daddy’s dead
pp 15-77

2 - Tech noir
pp 78-137

3 - Dark bodies
pp 138-184

4 - Beyond the Gothic principle
pp 185-217

References
pp 218-229

Index
pp 230-233

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