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Description

1. 447 pages : illustrations (some colour); 26 cm

Summary

1. "In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse's HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN explored hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. In this pioneering work, 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. 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. "--

Alternative title

1. Autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films

Subject

1. Horror films > History and criticism
2. Exploitation films > History and criticism
3. Women in motion pictures
4. Mental illness in motion pictures
5. Women > Health and hygiene
6. Horror films
7. Exploitation films
8. Women

Genre/Form

1. Film criticism.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. Horror films.

Contents

1. Introduction: Have you got a magnificent problem? -- Part 1. Wound-gatherers: The entity; Paranormal activity -- Part 2. Broken dolls: The corruption of Chris Miller; The blue eyes of the broken doll; Singapore sling; Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly; The rats are coming!; The werewolves are here!; Martyrs; Images; 3 women; Sisters -- Part 3. All safe and dead: The glass ceiling; All the colors of the dark; Gently before she dies; Anima Persa; Let's scare Jessica to death; The reincarnation of Peter Proud; The haunting of Julia -- Part 4. Secret ceremonies: Ms. 45; Four flies on grey velvet; Autopsy; The perfume of the lady in black; Toys are not for children; Secret ceremony; The witch who came from the sea; Daddy; The geography of fear; The ladies club; A gun for Jennifer; Defenceless -- Part 5. Afterschool special: Trance; May; The collector; Out of the blue; Don't deliver us from evil; Alucarda; Cutting moments; In my skin -- Part 6. The strange passenger: Marnie; Born innocent; Christiane F.; Streetwise; A lizard in a woman's skin; Footprints; Nabi: the butterfly; La nuit des traquées; Love me deadly; Nekromantik -- Part 7. You've always loved violence: The whip and the body; The frightened woman; The isle; Bad guy; The blood spattered bride; Rebecca -- Part 8. Heal me with hatred: Symptoms; Prey; Cat people; The devils; The killer nun; Mademoiselle; The piano teacher -- Part 9. Piercing reality: The other side of the underneath; The brood; Possession; Szamanka; Man, woman and beast; Antichrist -- Part 10. You carry a coffin today: Venus drowning; Mermaid in a manhole -- Epilogue: The monster at the end of this book -- Appendix: The compendium of female neurosis.

Call number

1. MFL 23-4618

Note

1. Originally published: 2012.
2. This 3rd pressing February 2023.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (page 439) and index.

Author

1. Janisse, Kier-La, author.

Title

1. House of psychotic women : an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films / Kier-La Janisse.

Publisher

1. Godalming, England, U.K. : FAB Press Ltd., 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. Expanded edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (page 439) and index.

ISBN

1. 9781913051211 (hardcover)
2. 1913051218 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. MFL 23-4618