Ebook: House of psychotic women: an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films
Author: Janisse Kier-La
- Tags: Exploitation films, Exploitation films--History and criticism, Horror films, Horror films--History and criticism, Mental illness in motion pictures, Women in motion pictures, Criticism interpretation etc, Horror films -- History and criticism, Exploitation films -- History and criticism
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: SCB Distributors
- City: Godalming
- Language: English
- epub
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. 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 a celebration of female madness, both onscreen and off. This critically-acclaimed publication is packed with rare images that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the...