Ebook {Epub PDF} Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Jack Halberstam

 · 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 Brand: Duke University Press Books. 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 is constantly being rewritten by historically and culturally conditioned fears . 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 /5(2).

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Halberstam, Jack. Published by Duke University Press Books, ISBN ISBN Skin Shows: Gothic Horror The Technology Of Monsters. Halberstam, Judith. Published by Duke University Press, Durham , Jack Halberstam; Jack Halberstam (primary author only) Author division. Jack Halberstam is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Includes. Jack Halberstam is composed of 7 names. You can examine and separate out names. Combine with. Judith Halberstam is Professor of Literature at the University of California in San Diego. She is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, also published by Duke University Press, and writes a regular film review column for Girlfriends magazine.

Halberstam’s notion of. Skin Shows has ratings and 12 reviews. In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous t. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Judith Halberstam. Durham: Duke University Press, Pp. ix + Through a. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Jack Halberstam. Buy the selected items together This item: Excessive interpretability, Halberstam argues, whether in film, literature, or in the culture at large, is the actual hallmark of monstrosity. Literacy Criticism Cultural studies. Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, ), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, ), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, ), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, ), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press.