Modern Ghost Melodramas What Lies Beneath 1st Edition by Michael Walker ISBN 9462980160 9789462980167

Modern Ghost Melodramas What Lies Beneath 1st Edition by Michael Walker – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9462980160, 9789462980167

Full download Modern Ghost Melodramas What Lies Beneath 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 9462980160

ISBN 13: 9789462980167 

Author: Michael Walker

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and the Ring film 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, psychoanalysis.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Three Major Predecessors
3. The Fallow Years: An Assortment of Ghosts
Seminal Films
4. Ghosts in the City
5. Ghosts in the Machine
6. Schoolgirl Angst
7. Childhood Abuse
Evolution of the cycle
8. Generic Developments 1: Messages from the Dead
9. Spain and History 1: Politics and War
10. Hollywood Reinflections
11. Asian Variations
12. Generic Developments 2: Ghosts in the Woman’s Film
13. Ghosts and Institutions 1: South Korea
14. Ghosts and Institutions 2: The West
15. National Variations
16. Anatomy of the Ghost Melodrama
17. Spain and History 2: The Franco Legacy and the Catholic Church
18. The Return of the British Ghost Film
19. Recent US developments and conclusion

People also search for:

modern ghost melodramas
    
modern melodrama movies
    
modern melodramas
    
modern ghost movies
    
a ghost movie song
    
modern melodrama plays

Tags: Michael Walker, Modern Ghost, Melodramas, What Lies Beneath