House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of

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
Country USA
Brand Brand: FAB Press
Manufacturer FAB Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781903254691
ReleaseDate 2012-10-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781903254691

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: FAB Press
Manufacturer	FAB Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781903254691
ReleaseDate	2012-10-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781903254691

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

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