{"product_id":"9781137303578","title":"Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eConrich, Ian; Sedgwick, Laura\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body—from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach—this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body horror’, \u003ci\u003eGothic Dissections in Film and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present; fromNikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and \u003ci\u003eThe Greasy Strangler\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-11-20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137303578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-30358-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 296.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752431743116,"sku":"9781137303578","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137303578.jpg?v=1766030455","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137303578","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}