Modern ghost melodramas : 'What lies beneath' /
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 countri...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9462980160 9789462980167 |