The Uses of Phobia : Essays on Literature and Film Paperback / softback
by David (University of Cambridge, UK) Trotter
Part of the Critical Quarterly Book Series series
Paperback / softback
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The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource - and one with a history.
They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they could not otherwise have said or shown; and in this way to get profoundly and provocatively to grips with the modern condition. Makes extensive reference to original readings of a wide range of literary texts and films, from the 1850s to the presentPlaces a strong emphasis on the value phobia has held, in particular, for women activists, writers, and film-makersDiscusses a range of writers and film-makers from Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot through Hardy, Joyce, Ford and Woolf; from Jean Renoir through Hitchcock and Truffaut to Margarethe von Trotta and Pedro AlmodovarIntervention in key debates in cultural theory and cultural history
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:11/06/2010
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- ISBN:9781444333848
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:11/06/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781444333848
