Horror isn't what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The
meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly
over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from
fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they
are produced and consumed. Limits of horror, moving from gothic to
cybergothic, through technological modernity and across a range of
literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts, critically examines
these changes and the questions they pose for understanding
contemporary culture and subjectivity. Re-examining key concepts
such as the uncanny, the sublime, terror, shock and abjection in
terms of their bodily and technological implications, this book
advances current critical and theoretical debates on Gothic horror
to propose a new theory of cultural production based on an
extensive discussion of Freud's idea of the death drive. Limits of
horror will appeal to students and academics in Literature, Film,
Media and Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory. -- .
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