House Of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la Janisse

House Of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Kier-la Janisse

360 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art gender psychology challenging dark reflective medium-paced
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Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Unlike her male counterpart, the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films rare places where her destructive em...

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