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Modern ghost melodramas : 'What lies beneath'
- Title
- Modern ghost melodramas : 'What lies beneath' / Michael Walker.
- Author
- Walker, Michael
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
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- Description
- 467 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Film culture in transition
- Uniform Title
- Film culture in transition.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452), filmography (pages 439-443) and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 17-1777
- ISBN
- 9462980160
- 9789462980167
- OCLC
- 959036079
- Author
- Walker, Michael, author.
- Title
- Modern ghost melodramas : 'What lies beneath' / Michael Walker.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Film culture in transitionFilm culture in transition.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452), filmography (pages 439-443) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 17-1777