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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.

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Description

202 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary film and television series

Uniform Title

Contemporary film and television series

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

0814327214
9780814327210

LCCN

97037951

OCLC

ocm37573261
37573261
SCSB-364781

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library