LEADER 03092nam 22005532 450 001 9910818000803321 005 20201218162830.0 010 $a90-485-2934-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048529346 035 $a(CKB)3710000001364676 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4853756 035 $a(DE-B1597)502573 035 $a(OCoLC)986222311 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048529346 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048529346 035 $a(OCoLC)1281933183 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_66311 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001364676 100 $a20201126d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModern ghost melodramas $e'what lies beneath' /$fMichael Walker$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (467 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aFilm culture in transition 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020). 311 $a94-6298-016-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 447-452), filmography (pages 439-443) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Three major predecessors -- The fallow years: an assortment of ghosts bringing back the past -- Ghosts in the city -- Ghosts in the machine -- Schoolgirl angst -- Childhood abuse -- Generic developments 1: messages from the dead -- Spain and history 1: politics and war -- Hollywood reinflections -- Asian variations -- Generic developments 2: ghosts in the woman's film -- Ghosts and institutions 1: South Korea -- Ghosts and institutions 2: the west -- National variations -- Anatomy of the ghost melodrama -- Spain and history 2: the Franco legacy and the Catholic church -- The return of the British ghost film -- Recent US developments and conclusion. 330 $aThe popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and the Ring film and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis. 410 0$aFilm culture in transition. 606 $aGhosts in motion pictures 606 $aMotion pictures$xHistory 610 $aInternational ghost movies. 610 $aMelodrama. 610 $aModern generic cycle. 615 0$aGhosts in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 676 $a791.43675 700 $aWalker$b Michael$0800843 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818000803321 996 $aModern ghost melodramas$94038986 997 $aUNINA