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Modern Ghost Melodramas
'What Lies Beneath'
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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, psychoanalysis.
About the Author:
Michael Walker is an independent writer and member of the editorial board of Movie magazine.
Press Reviews:
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 education journal) , Issue 62, Winter 2017-18
See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press
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