Horror film and psychoanalysis : Freud's worst nightmare /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:Cambridge studies in film.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • What lies beneath? / Robin Wood
  • Introduction: Psychoanalysis in/and/of the horror film / Steven Jay Schneider
  • The Question of Horror-Pleasure
  • 'What's the matter with Melanie?': reflections on the merits of psychoanalytic approaches to modern horror cinema / Cosimo Urbano
  • A fun night out: horror and other pleasures of the cinema / Michael Levine
  • Excerpt from 'Why Horror? The New Pleasures of a Popular Genre' (with a new afterward by the author) / Andrew Tudor
  • Philosophical problems concerning the concept of pleasure for future psychoanalytical theories of (the horror) film / Malcolm Turvey
  • Theorizing the Uncanny
  • Explaining the uncanny in The Double Life of Véronique / Cynthia Freeland
  • Manifestations of the literary double in modern horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider
  • Heimlich maneuvers: on a certain tendency of horror and speculative cinema / Harvey Roy Greenberg
  • 'It was a dark and stormy night ...': horror films and the problem of irony / Jonathan L. Crane
  • Representing Psychoanalysis
  • 'What does Dr. Judd want?': transformation, transference and divided selves in Cat People / William Paul
  • 'Ultimate formlessness': cinema, horror, and the limits of meaning / Michael Grant
  • Freud's worst nightmare: dining with Dr Hannibal Lector / Barbara Creed
  • New Directions
  • Doing things with theory: from Freud's worst nightmares to (disciplinary) dreams of horror's cultural value / Matt Hills
  • The darker side of genius: the (horror) auteur meets Freud's theory / Linda Badley
  • Violence and psychophysiology in horror cinema / Stephen Price
  • Afterword: psychoanalysis and the horror film / Noël Carroll.