Name: House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
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House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.
Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart – ‘the eccentric’ – the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.
Named after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured’s The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.
This sharply-designed book with a 32-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure.

– comprehensive appendix
– 1000 rare photos, many in color

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PartNumber	9781903254691	Manufacturer	FAB Press
Brand	Brand: FAB Press	Author	Janisse, Kier-La
ReleaseDate	2012-10-15T00:00:01Z	Item Weight	2.33 Pounds
ItemDimensions	7.5 x 1 x 9Inches	NumberOfItems	1
binding	Paperback	Amazon Category	Books » Arts & Photography » Performing Arts
Amazon Category	Books » Biographies » Community & Culture Biographies » Women’s Biographies	Amazon Category	Books » Biographies » Professional & Academic Biographies » Psychologist Biographies
Amazon Category	Books » Humor & Entertainment » Movies » Movie History & Criticism	Amazon Category	Books » Health, Fitness & Dieting » Psychology & Counseling » Popular Psychology Mental Illness Books
EAN	9781903254691	ISBN	1903254698

Weight	2.33 lbs

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