Modern Ghost Melodramas

'What Lies Beneath'

AvMichael Walker

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Film Culture in Transition

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Beskrivning

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring 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, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-01
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:900 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Film Culture in Transition
Antal sidor:484
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041182986

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Michael Walker is an independent writer and member of the editorial board of Movie magazine.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction 2. Three major predecessors 3. The fallow years: an assortment of ghosts SEMINAL FILMS 4. Ghosts in the city 5. Ghosts in the machine 6. Schoolgirl angst 7. Childhood abuse EVOLUTION OF THE CYCLE 8. Generic developments 1: Messages from the dead 9. Spain and history 1: Politics and war 10. Hollywood reinflections 11. Asian variations 12. Generic developments 2: Ghosts in the woman's film 13. Ghosts and institutions 1: South Korea 14. Ghosts and institutions 2: The West 15. National variations 16. Anatomy of the ghost melodrama 17. Spain and history 2: The Franco legacy and the Catholic church 18. Return of the British ghost film 19. Recent US developments and conclusion, Filmography, Bibliography