Modern Ghost Melodramas : 'What Lies Beneath'
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Film Culture in Transition
ISBN-10
1041182988
ISBN-13
9781041182986
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2025
Print length
484 Pages
Weight
900 grams
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticismMedia studiesMedia studies
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This book takes a close look at films that deal with ghosts. Making a crucial distinction between atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas.
The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis.
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