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Skin shows
Jack Halberstam · 1995 · 224 pages
Gothic revival (Literature)Monsters in motion picturesHistory and criticismMonsters in literatureHorror tales, EnglishLiterature and technology
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Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity -- Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia? -- Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws -- Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs -- Conclusion: serial killing.
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