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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Walker, Michael, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Modern Ghost Melodramas : |b 'What Lies Beneath' / |c Michael Walker. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Film culture in transition | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Three major predecessors -- The fallow years: an assortment of ghosts bringing back the past -- Ghosts in the city -- Ghosts in the machine -- Schoolgirl angst -- Childhood abuse -- Generic developments 1: messages from the dead -- Spain and history 1: politics and war -- Hollywood reinflections -- Asian variations -- Generic developments 2: ghosts in the woman's film -- Ghosts and institutions 1: South Korea -- Ghosts and institutions 2: the west -- National variations -- Anatomy of the ghost melodrama -- Spain and history 2: the Franco legacy and the Catholic church -- The return of the British ghost film -- Recent US developments and conclusion. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a 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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