Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature (eBook)

Ian Conrich is Honorary Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is an author or editor of fourteen books, including Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema (2009) and The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (2005).Laura Sedgwick is studying for a PhD in Film and Gothic Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is co-editor of ‘Islands and Film’, a special issue of the journal Post Script.

Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature 4
Acknowledgements 6
Contents 8
List of Figures 10
Chapter 1 Introduction 13
Gothic Dilemmas 15
The Gothic Body 19
Bibliography 24
Chapter 2 The Brain 27
The Exposed Brain 29
Brain Experiments 34
Brain Power 38
Bibliography 42
Chapter 3 Head and Face 44
Beheadings 47
The Dicephalous 49
The Expanded Head 52
The Masked Face 53
Bibliography 56
Chapter 4 Eyes 59
Wide-Eyed 63
Blinded 66
Displacement 69
Bibliography 73
Chapter 5 Ears and Nose 75
Nasal Defects 77
Lost and Found 79
Transmogrification 84
The Invaded Body 86
Bibliography 90
Chapter 6 Teeth 91
Forced Extractions 92
Biting Teeth 96
Collecting Teeth 99
False Teeth 101
Bibliography 104
Chapter 7 The Tongue, Mouth and Lips 106
The Extended Tongue 107
Mouth Opened Wide 111
Lips SealedLips Parted 113
The Disembodied Voice 115
Bibliography 118
Chapter 8 Hair and Fingernails 120
Uncontrollable Hair 122
Beastliness 126
Clawish Hands 129
Out of Sight 133
Bibliography 137
Chapter 9 Hands 139
Severed Hands 141
Compulsive Hands 147
Alternative Hands 149
Mummified Hands 153
Bibliography 156
Chapter 10 Feet and Limbs 159
Broken Limbs 160
Anatomical Loss 164
Replacement Limbs 167
Bibliography 172
Chapter 11 Bones 173
Unruly Bones 174
Unburied Bones 176
Objectified Bones 180
Uncanny Bones 183
Bibliography 186
Chapter 12 Skin 188
Skin Deep 192
Flaying 195
Modification 199
Bibliography 202
Chapter 13 The Heart 204
The Beating Heart 205
The Extracted Heart 207
Mad Science 210
Heart Transplants 213
Bibliography 216
Chapter 14 Genitalia 218
Castration 220
Augmented Sexuality 224
Extremities 228
Bibliography 231
Chapter 15 The Uterus 233
The Abnormal Womb 235
Monstrous Births 238
Possession 239
The Protective Womb 242
Bibliography 246
Chapter 16 The Stomach, Intestines and the Anus 248
Food Processing and the Force-Fed Body 250
The Unzipped Body 252
Cheek to Cheek: The Body Remodelled 255
The Gluttonous Body 257
From the Bottom 259
Bibliography 264
Chapter 17 Epilogue 266
Index 268
Films 271
Literature: Fiction and Authors 279
Art and Artists 284
General 286