9781914420887
220pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Cultural Studies / Politics
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In this book, pioneering film critic and cultural theorist Jon Greenaway asks: What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism?
Covering horror classics like Frankenstein and Dracula, as well as modern works like Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future and the Saw franchise, the book explores the socio-political function of the monstrous, the haunted nature of the digital world and the inescapable horror of contemporary capitalist politics.
At the same time, it shows us how horror and the Gothic can offer a route beyond and outside of capitalism, arguing that we can find hope in horror — a site of monstrous becoming, that opens the door to a Utopian future.
JON GREENAWAY is a horror expert with a PhD from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. His work has appeared
in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Baffler.
9781914420580
370 pp
PB 216 x 135 mm
Mono
£12.99/$19.95
Film
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In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.
In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen.
Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in
silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence of a true trans-authored cinema,
Corpses, Fools and Monsters spans everything from musicals to body horror to avant-garde experimental film to tell the story of transness on-screen.
CADEN MARK GARDNER has written for the Criterion Collection, MUBI, Film Comment, and Reverse Shot. Willow Catelyn Maclay has written for The Village Voice, MUBI, Vulture and
Roger Ebert.com.
