House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-La Janisse

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Kier-La Janisse

360 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art feminism gender horror memoir psychology challenging dark reflective medium-paced
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House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre...

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dark 81%
reflective 75%
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challenging 42%
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tense 12%
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mysterious 9%
adventurous 6%
relaxing 3%

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