Law and Horror

摘要: Horror is a key motivator for the presence of law and continues to justify its presence. It is that which is both a product of and outside of law, emerging when legal categories are exhausted. This suggests that horror can always already be read in legal discourse. This chapter demonstrates a method of reading law as and through horror, and the ways in which this reading can transform into a critique of law. The chapter defines the genre of horror and explores two key interconnected tropes, that of the affect of horror and monsters. These tropes are then applied for insight into key concepts of law. This includes an exploration of the ways in which intersectional identities present within horror neatly reflect the lack of neutrality inherent in the liberal legal subject and provide useful lessons for thinking through the way we understand law’s subjects, and a consideration of how the horror genre enacts and explores models of …