@inbook{183908da0bac4445b57a55317d080953,
title = "Transgressive bodies: destruction and excessive display of the human form in the horror film",
abstract = "The chapter employs Lacanian psychoanalysis to consider a range of 1980s horror film releases, arguing that horror cinema works to problematize subjectivity through its innovative mechanisms of spectatorship. ",
author = "Xavier Mendik",
year = "1997",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-420-0024-7",
series = "Critical Studies ",
publisher = "Rodopi",
pages = "189–202",
editor = "{Simms }, {Karl }",
booktitle = "Ethics and the Subject",
}