Modern ghost melodramas : 'What lies beneath' /

Modern ghost melodramas : 'What lies beneath' /

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Author / Creator:	Walker, Michael, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Description:	467 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Film culture in transition Film culture in transition.
Subject:	Ghosts in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- History. Ghosts in motion pictures. Motion pictures. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11436053

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ISBN:	9462980160 9789462980167 9789048529346
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452), filmography (pages 439-443) and index.
Summary:	The popular and critical successes of films like 'The Sixth Sense' and the 'Ring' film and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis.

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Call Number:	PN1995.9.S8 W35 2017
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