Maternal Horror Film Melodrama and Motherhood
Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificin
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Maternal Horror Film Melodrama and Motherhood Sarah Arnold University College Falmouth, UK
Sarah Arnold © 2013
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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction Psychoanalysis and the Good and Bad Mother The maternal in film theory Maternal melodrama and its uses Maternal horror
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1 The Good Mother Psychoanalysis, horror and the Good Mother Family discontents: Questioning the function of the Good Mother in post-classical horror Moments of resistance
37 40
2 The Bad Mother Cultural and historical discourses of the Bad Mother: Symbolism and practice through the ages Melodrama and the Bad Mother horror film The Brood Melancholia and the mother: Traces of gothic
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3 A Comparative Analysis of Motherhood in Recent Japanese and US Horror Films Why Japan? Motherhood and self-sacrifice in Japan Dark Water Ringu and The Ring
115 115 119 126 137
4 Pregnancy in the Horror Film: Reproduction and Maternal Discourses Pregnancy in science/medical horror Religion and pregnancy horror films
154 162 169
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Filmography
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Index
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