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Giving up the ghost : spirits, ghosts, and angels in mainstream comedy films

Title: Giving up the ghost : spirits, ghosts, and angels in mainstream comedy films / Katherine A. Fowkes.
Author: Fowkes, Katherine A., 1962-
Publication: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

202 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary film and television series

Uniform Title

Contemporary film and television series.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. The Ghost in the Machine. Silly Specters? Sadism in Narrative. Misogyny and Sadism in Film Viewing. Generic Context. Fantasy and the Fantastic. The Melodramatic Too-Late -- 2. The Masochistic Contract. The Ghostly Contract. (Mis)-Communication and the Verbal Contract. Miscommunication in Ghost and Other Films. Ghosts as Repetition and Delay in the Narrative Contract. Spectating Specters in the Masochistic Scenario -- 3. Accessing the Feminine/Maternal. Masochistic Fantasy. Corpus Delicti. Emotion. Female Space/Haunted Houses. Music. Birth and Rebirth -- 4. Marvelous Spirits: Seeing and Speaking. Invisibility as a Primal Fantasy. Disembodied Voice and the Problem of Language. Neoformalism. Space, Bodies, and Voices. The Fantastic versus the Marvelous. Paranoia and (Film) Projection -- 5. Gender Switching. Romance. Gender Switching and Sexual Sameness. Melancholy. Gender Switching and the Body -- 6. Giving Up the Ghost.
Angels and Destiny in the Masochistic Fantasy. Cosmic Destiny Meets Comic Destiny -- 7. Speculating about Specters. Hollywood Haunted. Divine Inspiration. Romance and Sex. Crises as Catalysts. Race and Gender. Rereading Hollywood. Conclusion.

ISBN

0814327214 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97037951

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries