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Transnational Horror Cinema : Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque by Sophia Siddique and Raphael Raphael is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is Transnational Horror Cinema : Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque about?
This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a political body, one that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it, to make it behave and conform. This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultur
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- Author
- Sophia Siddique and Raphael Raphael
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137584168
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Sociology, Science, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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