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House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Expanded Edition) by Kier-la Janisse
Hardcover – Fab Pr – Oct 2022 – 448 pages
Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desparate lonliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart–‘the eccentric’–the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.
Named after the U.S> retitling of Carlos Aured’s The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, The House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.
This sharply-designed book with a 48-page full-color section is packed with rare stills, posters, press books and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure.
Filmes covered include:
- The Entity,
- Black Swan,
- Repulsion,
- 3 Women,
- The Corruption of Chris Miller,
- Singapore Sling,
- Christiane F.,
- Toys Are Not for Children,
- Let’s Scare Jessica to Death,
- The Haunting of Julia,
- Mademoiselle,
- Out of the Blue,
- Secret Ceremony,
- Cutting Moments,
- Dr. Jeckyll and His Women
- The Piano Teacher,
- Posession,
- The Brood,
- Antichrist
- and hundreds more!
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