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Modern Ghost Melodramas
Michael S. Walker
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Description for Modern Ghost Melodramas
Series: Film Culture in Transition. Num Pages: 490 pages, 48 black and white; 0 full color. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 48.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
Series
Film Culture in Transition
Number of Pages
490
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789462980167
SKU
V9789462980167
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99-17
About Michael S. Walker
Michael Walker is an independent writer and member of the editorial board of Movie magazine.
Reviews for Modern Ghost Melodramas
"The bibliography and index are thorough and the illustrations are very good, well above the average in modern publishing = It is difficult to give a proper sense of this extensive study. It is certainly comprehensive up until the date of publication and the study of genre films from so many different cinemas is fascinating." - Keith Withall, mej (media ... Read more