Paradoxa no.17: HORROR

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this journal i'm binding right now has some pretty cool articles:

Shudder as we think: Reflections on Horror and/or Criticism

Bela Lugosi's Dead and I'm Not Feeling Too Good Either: The Politics and Aesthetics of Gothic Club Dancing

Fear Unknowable: Le Fanu's Contribution to the Literary Fantastic

Domesticity as Horror: Romero's "Jack's Wife"

At The Hong Kong Hop: "Mr. Vampire" Spawns Bloodsucking Genre

Haitian Voodoo as Postcolonial Symptom

Are we not Men? The Horror of Eugenics in "The Island of Doctor Moreau"

Biohorror/Biotech

There are no limits: Splatterpunk, Clive Barker, and the Body in-extremis

A Manifesto for Werewolves: What the Cyborgs Didn't Tell Us

Meeting Monsters, Loving Men: Abjection and Community in Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" and Stephen King's "The Breathing Method"

Judith Hawkes' "Julian's House" and the Possibilities of the Postmodern Ghost Story

Re-vamping the Gothic: Representations of the Gothic Heroine in Angela Carter's "Nights at the Circus"

Guerilla Vamping: "Vampyros Lesbos", the Becoming-Woman of Women and the Unravelling of the Male Gaze

Narrative Mortality: The 'Fragmegrated' Corpse of the Horror Anthology Film

etc. worth stealing, perhaps?

 

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the politics and aesthetics of gothic club dancing article is SUBLIME

 

[deadair]

that does sound like an interesting read

 

[goatschool]

wow.

 

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i can't steal it now because 2 people saw me reading it and asked about it and would get suspicious if i have to order it as a missing.