An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
by
Kier-La Janisse
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....