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Ever since horror became wildly popular in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainment. Xavier Aldana Reyes takes a different stance in <i>Body Gothic</i>, celebrating the transgressive qualities of this genre. Reyes considers relevant popular literary and filmic movements of the past three decades and reads them as updates in a long gothic tradition that goes back to the eighteenth century. <i>Body Gothic</i> contains case studi
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- Author
- Xavier Aldana Reyes; University of Wales Press
- Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781783160938
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Popular Culture
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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