{"product_id":"body-gothic-xavier-aldana-reyes-9781783160921","title":"Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eBody Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eBody Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e contains case studies of key texts in splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn, and surgical horror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xavier Aldana Reyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783160926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783160921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Xavier Aldana Reyes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45331694059775,"sku":"9781783160921","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a815ac49-7387-4f04-8440-4eff5101c06c.jpg?v=1713970642","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/body-gothic-xavier-aldana-reyes-9781783160921","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}