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Serial Killing Serial Children: Dexter's Counterfeit Families, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

Serial Killing Serial Children: Dexter's Counterfeit Families, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

Recently Hollywood has remade a number of movies from the 1970s, movies in which young women are terrorized by a murderer calling from a telephone located elsewhere in the house. In the remakes, the murderer uses a cell phone, which effectively destroys the sense of space and distance on which earlier horror films were predicated. In one way, these films gesture to Jean Baudrillard's idea of “the transparency of evil,” in that they depict the collapse between the speaking self and the technologies of monstrosity against which the self might be defined. In another way, though, the films proliferate sites …


Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm Oct 2006

Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

The late twentieth century is fascinated by the phenomenon of the gothic child, the child who manifests evil, violence, and sexual aggression. On the face of it, this evil is “caused” by either medical or social factors: medicinal drugs, radiation, or the corrupting influences of political others. However, this essay argues that the gothic child actually arises from conflicting forces of child-philosophies, the intersection of Romantic childhood innocence with Freudian depth models. These models tacitly point to a child that “is” rather than “is made”, a child that belies contemporary parental attempts to make it be otherwise. Moreover, the idea …


Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm Dec 2005

Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm Dec 2003

Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body And The Law, Steven Bruhm Jan 2000

David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body And The Law, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Cannon Schmitt. Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality, Steven Bruhm Dec 1998

Cannon Schmitt. Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm Dec 1998

Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Gothic Body, Steven Bruhm Dec 1997

Gothic Body, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Gothic Bodies: The Politics Of Pain In Romantic Fiction, Steven Bruhm Dec 1993

Gothic Bodies: The Politics Of Pain In Romantic Fiction, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject.