TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trotter, David
TI  - The uses of phobia: essays on literature and film 
SN  - 9781444333848
U1  - 820.9353 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - UK
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - English fiction-History and criticism
KW  - Motion pictures-History and criticism
KW  - Phobias in literature
N2  - 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 Almodóvar
-Intervention in key debates in cultural theory and cultural history
ER  -