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Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media (Paperback)
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Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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This book examines the manifestations of materiality across
different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of
literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of
horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and
the nonorganic. The author explores how materiality lends itself
ideally to discussions of gothic and horror and acts as a threat to
attempts to control meaning which falls outside the realm of
consciousness. It brings the two together by examining the
manifestations of this materiality to focus on a form of horror
that is concerned with the (in) human by reading blood as the
conduit of an unnameable materiality that circulates through gothic
media, seducing with its familiar mask of gothic aesthetics only to
uncover the horror of a totally alienating and inhuman otherness.
Film, media, popular culture, philosophy and nineteenth-century
literature are brought together and juxtaposed to create a
continuity of ideas, and highlighting differences. The book offers
innovative readings of notions of blood inscription in different
media, of the Dark Web, accelerationism and technoscience to
account for the widespread haemophilia in contemporary culture.
This title is an essential read for researchers, undergraduate and
postgraduate students in film studies, media studies, literature,
philosophy, cultural theory and popular culture. Its
interdisciplinary nature, clear exposition of thought and
theoretical ideas will make it a key resource for both students and
for general readers with an interest in contemporary horror, media
and pop culture.
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