000			01415cam a2200169ua 4500
020			_a9781444333848
082			_a820.9353 _bTRO/U
100			_aTrotter, David
245	1	0	_aThe uses of phobia: essays on literature and film
260			_aUK _bWiley-Blackwell _c2010
300			_a173p.
520			_aThe 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
650			_aEnglish fiction-History and criticism
650	0		_aMotion pictures-History and criticism
650	0		_aPhobias in literature
942			_cBK
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