House of psychotic women : an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films /

House of psychotic women : an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films /

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Author / Creator:	Janisse, Kier-La, author.
Edition:	Expanded edition.
Imprint:	Godalming, England, U.K. : FAB Press Ltd., 2022. ©2022
Description:	447 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Horror films -- History and criticism. Exploitation films -- History and criticism. Women in motion pictures. Mental illness in motion pictures. Women -- Health and hygiene. Motion Pictures. Women's Health Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders. Horror films. Exploitation films. Women in motion pictures. Mental illness in motion pictures. Film criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Horror films. Horror films. Film criticism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13299370

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Varying Form of Title:	Autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films
ISBN:	9781913051211 1913051218
Notes:	Originally published: 2012. This 3rd pressing February 2023. Includes bibliographical references (page 439) and index.
Summary:	"In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse's HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN explored hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. In this pioneering work, anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play. "--

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Call Number:	PN1995.9.H6 J375 2022
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