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Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
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Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque Hardcover - 2017

by Sophia Siddique (Editor); Raphael Raphael (Editor)


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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 cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies' potentials to explore and perhaps to explode rigid cultural scripts of embodiment, including gender, race, and ability.

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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 allowsTransnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies' potentials to explore and perhaps to explode rigid cultural scripts of embodiment, including gender, race, and ability.

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  • Title Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
  • Author Sophia Siddique (Editor); Raphael Raphael (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2017-03-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781137584168 / 1137584165
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.88 in (21.01 x 14.81 x 2.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Horror films, Horror films - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016958101
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

About the author


Sophia Siddique is Associate Professor in the Department of Film at Vassar College, USA. Her research interests include Singapore cultural studies; representations of trauma and memory in Cambodian, Indonesian and Thai cinema; and the impact of new media on Southeast Asia's moving image culture. Sophia teaches film history, contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas and genres (horror and science fiction).

Raphael Raphael lectures at the Center for Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he is also Associate Editor of The Review of Disability Studies. He is co-editor of Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Culture (2013). His film and media scholarship is also informed by his practice as digital artist.
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