Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood - Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin - whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitc…
This is a study of the struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood that defined Hollywood masculinity from the late 1980s to the first decade of the 21st century.
This is a study of the struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood that defined Hollywood masculinity from the late 1980s to the first decade of the 21st century.
A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a stron…
Introduction : femininity and film genres -- Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother -- Transformations of the woman's film : or, feminine myths -- Modern horror. Modern horror as the concealed woman's film -- Medusa in the mirror : Brian de Palma's Carrie -- D…
La 4ème page de couverure indique : "The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiat…