Horror film and psychoanalysis : Freud's worst nightmare /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in film.
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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.