Kier La Janisse: 2 books
House of Psychotic Women
An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria....
Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema
Traces of a Lost Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period...