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Horror film and psychoanalysis: Freud's worst nightmare
Steven Jay Schneider
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Foreword: "What Lies Beneath?" (Robin Wood, page xiii)
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Introduction: "Pyschoanalysis in/and/of Horror film" (Steven Jay Schneider, page 1)
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PART ONE: THE QUESTION OF HORROR-PLEASURE
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1 "What's the Matter with Melanie?": Reflections on the Merits of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Modern Horror Cinema (Cosimo Urbano, page 17)
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2 A Fun Night Out: Horror and Other Pleasures of the Cinema (Michael Levine, page 35)
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3 Excerpt from "Why Horror? The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre," with a New Afterword by the Author (Andrew Tudor, page 55)
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4 Philosophical Problems Concerning the Concept of Pleasure in Psychoanalytical Theories or (the Horror) Film (Malcolm Turvey, page 68)
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PART TWO: THEORIZING THE UNCANNY
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5 Explaining the Uncanny in The Double Life of Véronique (Cynthia Freeland, page 87)
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6 Manifestations of the Literary Double in Modern Horror Cinema (Steven Jay Schneider, page 106)
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7 Heimlich Maneuvres: On a Certain Tendency of Horror and Speculative Cinema (Harvey Roy Greenberg, page 122)
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8 "It was a dark and stormy night...": Horror Films and the Problem of Irony (Jonathan L. Crane, page 142)
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PART THREE: REPRESENTING PSYCHOANALYSIS
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9 What Does Dr. Judd Want? Transformation, Transference, and Divided Selves in Cat People (William Paul, page 159)
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10 "Ultimate Formlessness": Cinema, Horror, and the Limits of Meaning (Michael Grant, page 177)
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11 Freud's Worst Nightmare: Dining with Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Barbara Creed, page 188)
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PART FOUR: NEW DIRECTIONS
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12 Doing Things with Theory: From Freud's Worst Nightmare to (Disciplinary) Dreams of Horror's Cultural Value (Matt Hills, page 205)
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13 The Darker Side of Genius: The (Horror) Auteur Meets Freud's Theory (Linda Badley, page 222)
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14 Violence and Pyschophysiology in Horror Cinema (Stephen Prince, page 241)
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Afterword: Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film (Noël Carroll, page 257)
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About the Contributors (page 271)
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Bibliography (page 275)
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Index (page 293)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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FQ | 59.3 (Spring 2006): 76-77 |
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Published: c2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780511209840 (ebook)
- 9780521107853 (paper)
- 9780521825214 (hardcover)