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Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema 2012th Edition
Author(s): Karen A. Ritzenhoff (Author), Karen Randell (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 25 Sept. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230341543
- ISBN-13: 9780230341548
Book Description
How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of “happy endings” that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual analysis, psychoanalytic models, and cultural critique and engage with a broad range of films to explore issues of gender identity and spectatorship.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This collection explores the complex relationship between love and sex . . . The essays fully engage the subject, examining films in relationship to violence, performative spectatorship, censorship, race, physical disability, and domestic violence . . . [They] problematize notions of sexuality and ask provocative questions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” – CHOICE
About the Author
Karen Randell is the program leader in Film and Television in the School of Media at Southampton Solent University.
