Editor: Onoriu Colacel
“FRANTIC FUN AND HIGH SPIRITS”: NAVIGATING THE URBAN OBSCENE IN PETER ACKROYD’S QUEER CITY – Fabian Ivanovici
An atmosphere of uneasy reservation still pervades debates concerning sexualities and gender identities that do not fall in line with social norms and codes of propriety. Imagining a subject outside the discourse of heterosexuality remains an act fraught with incertitude,…
KNOWING FROM WITHIN: THE OBSCENE BODY IN “THE SQUAW” – Luminiţa Elena Turcu
The article focuses on the relationship between woman’s body and text in a piece of short Gothic fiction by Dracula’s author. Woman’s body is in Stoker’s “The Squaw” an obscene text that can be “read” and is open to exploration…
HARDCORE HORROR: THE PLEASURES AND DISPLEASURES OF BREAKING CINEMATIC TABOOS – Jennifer Drissel
Although films of both the “Torture Porn” and “New Extremism” subgenres have been characterized as physically hard to watch, films of the “Hardcore Horror” subgenre push this characteristic to the extreme by purposely tackling taboo issues such as incest, bestiality,…