Modern ghost melodramas : 'What Lies Beneath' /
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 countri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Three major predecessors
- The fallow years: an assortment of ghosts bringing back the past
- Ghosts in the city
- Ghosts in the machine
- Schoolgirl angst
- Childhood abuse
- Generic developments 1: messages from the dead
- Spain and history 1: politics and war
- Hollywood reinflections
- Asian variations
- Generic developments 2: ghosts in the woman's film
- Ghosts and institutions 1: South Korea
- Ghosts and institutions 2: the west
- National variations
- Anatomy of the ghost melodrama
- Spain and history 2: the Franco legacy and the Catholic church
- The return of the British ghost film
- Recent US developments and conclusion.
