ACLS Humanities E-Book: Horror film and psychoanalysis: Freud's worst nightmare

Horror film and psychoanalysis: Freud's worst nightmare

Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-

Year: c2004.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

Publisher's Website

For full access to this item, please Login

table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Foreword: "What Lies Beneath?"

Introduction: "Pyschoanalysis in/and/of Horror film"

PART ONE: THE QUESTION OF HORROR-PLEASURE

1 "What's the Matter with Melanie?": Reflections on the Merits of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Modern Horror Cinema

2 A Fun Night Out: Horror and Other Pleasures of the Cinema

3 Excerpt from "Why Horror? The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre," with a New Afterword by the Author

4 Philosophical Problems Concerning the Concept of Pleasure in Psychoanalytical Theories or (the Horror) Film

PART TWO: THEORIZING THE UNCANNY

5 Explaining the Uncanny in The Double Life of Véronique

6 Manifestations of the Literary Double in Modern Horror Cinema

7 Heimlich Maneuvres: On a Certain Tendency of Horror and Speculative Cinema

8 "It was a dark and stormy night...": Horror Films and the Problem of Irony

PART THREE: REPRESENTING PSYCHOANALYSIS

9 What Does Dr. Judd Want? Transformation, Transference, and Divided Selves in Cat People

10 "Ultimate Formlessness": Cinema, Horror, and the Limits of Meaning

11 Freud's Worst Nightmare: Dining with Dr. Hannibal Lecter

PART FOUR: NEW DIRECTIONS

12 Doing Things with Theory: From Freud's Worst Nightmare to (Disciplinary) Dreams of Horror's Cultural Value

13 The Darker Side of Genius: The (Horror) Auteur Meets Freud's Theory

14 Violence and Pyschophysiology in Horror Cinema

Afterword: Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film

About the Contributors

Bibliography

Index

reviews

catalog record

Title:

Horror film and psychoanalysis : Freud's worst nightmare / edited by Steven Hay Schneider.

Author:

Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-

Extent:

600dpi TIFF G4 page images

E-Distribution Information:

University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information.

Source Version:

Horror film and psychoanalysis : Freud's worst nightmare / edited by Steven Hay Schneider.
Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, c2004.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07680

Subject Headings:

• Horror films -- Psychological aspects

Note:

• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

Encoding Description:

Project Description:
	Header created via MARC-to-XML-to-TEI transformation on 2011-06-23
Editorial Declaration:
	This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through automated and manual processes using the recommendations for Level 2 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file.