Books written by Xavier Aldana Reyes
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Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation
Emilio Carrere: Un bohemio?(Seville: Renacimiento). Anderson, Farris. 1971. Alfonso Sastre (New York: Twayne Publishers). Ascunce, José Ángel. 2007. Alfonso Sastre en el laberinto del drama (Hondarriba: Editorial Hiru).
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Visions of the Vampire
From John Polidori's iconic short story "The Vampyre" and tales of parasitic female companions to experimental and freshly thrilling takes by Robert Bloch, Angela Carter, and Anne Rice, this new collection sets out to present the ...
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Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
This has, in the cases of films such as A Serbian Film / Srpski film (Srđan Spasojević, 2010) and The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence, led to some of the most substantial cuts in twenty-first century UK censorship.
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Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
Dreadful Pleasures: Anatomy of Modern Horror. ... Japanese Horror Films and Their American Remakes: Translating Fear, Adapting Culture. ... Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film.
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Horror: A Literary History
This book offers a chronological overview of the genre in fiction and explores its development and mutations over the past 250 years. It also challenges the common misjudgement that horror fiction is necessarily frivolous or dispensable.
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Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
The second noun in the word 'splatterpunk', although also a wink to the then popular cyberpunk movement, very consciously refers to a rock music genre similarly linked to transgression and anti-establishment politics.
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Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon
This book offers an exploration of the digital horror film phenomenon, across different national cultures and historic periods, examining the sub-genres of CCTV horror, technological haunting, snuff films, found footage and torture porn.
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Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion
Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
This book considers a number of literary and cinematic movements that have, over the past three decades, purposely turned the body into a meaningful gothic topos.
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Gothic Cinema
... Gothic, London: Reaktion. Spooner, C. (2007) 'Gothic in the Twentieth Century', in C. Spooner and E. McEvoy (eds) The Routledge Companion to Gothic, London and New York: Routledge. Spooner, C. (2010) 'Crime and the Gothic', in C. J. ...