Description: Title: The Uses of Phobia Author: Trotter, David Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Binding: Paperback Pages: 192 Dimensions: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d Product Weight: 0.52 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781444333848 The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource - and one with a history. They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they could not otherwise have said or shown; and in this way to get profoundly and provocatively to grips with the modern condition. Makes extensive reference to original readings of a wide range of literary texts and films, from the 1850s to the present Places a strong emphasis on the value phobia has held, in particular, for women activists, writers, and film-makers Discusses a range of writers and film-makers from Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot through Hardy, Joyce, Ford and Woolf; from Jean Renoir through Hitchcock and Truffaut to Margarethe von Trotta and Pedro Almod var Intervention in key debates in cultural theory and cultural history Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Wiley-Blackwell
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Uses of Phobia : Essays on Literature and Film
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: Semiotics & Theory, Film / History & Criticism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: David Trotter
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Item Width: 5.8 in
Series: Critical Quarterly Book Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
