Horror film and psychoanalysis : Freud's worst nightmare / edited by Steven Hay Schneider.
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Publication/Creation
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2004], ©2004.
Physical description
xviii, 299 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents
What lies beneath? / Robin Wood -- Introduction: Psychoanalysis in/and/of the horror film / Steven Jay Schneider -- The Question of Horror-Pleasure -- 'What's the matter with Melanie?': reflections on the merits of psychoanalytic approaches to modern horror cinema / Cosimo Urbano -- A fun night out: horror and other pleasures of the cinema / Michael Levine -- Excerpt from 'Why Horror? The New Pleasures of a Popular Genre' (with a new afterward by the author) / Andrew Tudor -- Philosophical problems concerning the concept of pleasure for future psychoanalytical theories of (the horror) film / Malcolm Turvey -- Theorizing the Uncanny -- Explaining the uncanny in The Double Life of Véronique / Cynthia Freeland -- Manifestations of the literary double in modern horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider -- Heimlich maneuvers: on a certain tendency of horror and speculative cinema / Harvey Roy Greenberg -- 'It was a dark and stormy night ...': horror films and the problem of irony / Jonathan L. Crane
Representing Psychoanalysis -- 'What does Dr. Judd want?': transformation, transference and divided selves in Cat People / William Paul -- 'Ultimate formlessness': cinema, horror, and the limits of meaning / Michael Grant -- Freud's worst nightmare: dining with Dr Hannibal Lector / Barbara Creed -- New Directions -- Doing things with theory: from Freud's worst nightmares to (disciplinary) dreams of horror's cultural value / Matt Hills -- The darker side of genius: the (horror) auteur meets Freud's theory / Linda Badley -- Violence and psychophysiology in horror cinema / Stephen Price -- Afterword: psychoanalysis and the horror film / Noël Carroll.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.
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