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  1. Modern ghost melodramas
    "what lies beneath"
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    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... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    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 countries. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789462980167
    Series: Film culture in transition
    Subjects: Film; Geschichte; Geister <Motiv>; Horrorfilm; Melodrama <Film>
    Other subjects: Ghosts in motion pictures; Motion pictures / History; Ghosts in motion pictures; Motion pictures; History
    Scope: 467 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, Illustrationen, 24 cm
  2. Modern ghost melodramas
    "what lies beneath"
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    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... more

    Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek
    001 AP 53900 W182
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    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 countries. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9789462980167
    Series: Film culture in transition
    Subjects: Horrorfilm; Melodrama <Film>; Geister <Motiv>
    Scope: 467 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, Illustrationen, 24 cm
  3. Modern ghost melodramas
    'What lies beneath'
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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 countries. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9462980160; 9789462980167
    Series: Film culture in transition
    Subjects: Supernatural in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures; Melodrama in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; History; History
    Scope: 467 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates, color illustrations, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452), filmography (pages 439-443) and index

  4. Modern ghost melodramas
    "what lies beneath"
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Universitätsbibliothek
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    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 countries. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789462980167
    Series: Film culture in transition
    Subjects: Film; Geschichte; Geister <Motiv>; Horrorfilm; Melodrama <Film>
    Other subjects: Ghosts in motion pictures; Motion pictures / History; Ghosts in motion pictures; Motion pictures; History
    Scope: 467 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, Illustrationen, 24 cm
  5. Modern ghost melodramas
    'What lies beneath'
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    10 A 1389
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    DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Bibliothek
    Thomas Elsaesser 27
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    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 countries. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9462980160; 9789462980167
    Series: Film culture in transition
    Subjects: Supernatural in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures; Melodrama in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; History; History
    Scope: 467 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates, color illustrations, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452), filmography (pages 439-443) and index