
House of Psychotic Women
An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
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Kier-La Janisse
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By:
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Kier-La Janisse
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.
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, desperate loneliness, 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 US-retitling of Carlos Aured's The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, and trivia to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.
Contains mature themes.
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It should be noted that:
1) This covers the original 2012 release (as the cover suggests) and not the 2022 expanded edition. This makes little difference as:
2) The A-Z appendix of film reviews is absent from the audio edition. Though these are missed, that absence should encourage listeners to get their hands on the print or ebook version of this publication. (The print version, at least, features beautiful film stills and poster art throughout.)
Thank you FAB Press, for this book and now this audiobook!
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