Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as "Silence of the Lambs," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "Candyman," "Skin Shows" understands the Gothic as a versatile technology, a means of producing monsters that is constantly being rewritten by historically and culturally conditioned fears generated by a shared sense of otherness and difference. amazon.ca/Skin-Shows-PB-Judith-Halberstam/dp/0822316633/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374410731&sr=1-1&keywords=0822316633
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