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Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood
Sarah Arnold
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Description for Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood
Hardcover. Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.
Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137014115
SKU
V9781137014115
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About Sarah Arnold
Sarah Arnold is Lecturer in Film and Digital Media at University College Falmouth, UK. Her research interests include the history of the moving image, postmodernism and film, and women on film. She has presented at a number of international conferences, and recently contributed to the edited collection, Bound by Love (edited by Laura D'Amore). She has also written for the ... Read more
Reviews for Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood
"Arnold draws upon a wide scope of theoretical writing in psychoanalysis and film studies to explore the parallels between the mother's position in horror and melodrama, while also investigating the differences between Western and Japanese psychological analyses of the mother-child bond through a series of close readings of 'transnational' films. The book will make a vital contribution to both women's ... Read more