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The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film
Contributor(s): Trotter, David (Author)
ISBN: 1444333844     ISBN-13: 9781444333848
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $35.63  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 791.430
LCCN: 2010009591
Series: Critical Quarterly Book
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.52 lbs) 192 pages
 
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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 present
  • Places a strong emphasis on the value phobia has held, in particular, for women activists, writers, and film-makers
  • Discusses 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 Almod var
  • Intervention in key debates in cultural theory and cultural history