Contributing writer for The Artifice.
Junior Contributor I
Body horror and Science Fiction and fascination with the bodyWith directors like Cronenberg, Lynch, Carpenter body horror emerged as a distinct genre around 70's and 80's where the body was treated as susceptible surface of rupture and deformations. The backbone of science and its possibility of bodily transformations (more than the happy possibility, it was more like "science experiment gone wrong") held the motivation behind the spawning of the genre with films like The Fly, The Re-Animator, Shivers etc. The inspiration behind the genre, to some extent comes from science fiction, and its deployment on the body. To understand the genre of body horror, one has to look at how science fiction films as well as texts treat the human body
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Science-Fiction: Defining a Sprawling Genre. | |
I loved supernatural till season 5. Then it got quite boring | Supernatural: The Success and Failure of Continuing Series |
The initial critical attention to Sade (speaking about !20 days of sodom) was mainly psychoanalytic, given the number of sexual acts which helped the sexologists to annotate it in the list of perversions, I liked how you speculated on the political philosophy of Sade as well as the affective feeling of horror and terror in his fiction. | The Marquis de Sade and Literary Terror |
great article! I enjoyed reading it | The Controversial Art of Sally Mann |
Hi! Nice observations you made on horror films speculating on motherhood and its simultaneous relevance to psychoanalytic theories. | Maternal Horror Films: Understanding the 'Dysfunctional' Mother |
Hi! Nice observations you made on horror films speculating on motherhood and its simultaneous relevance to psychoanalytic theories. | Maternal Horror Films: Understanding the 'Dysfunctional' Mother |
There has been a lot of postcol science fiction writing, that indeed writes back to the eurocentric vision of science fiction.