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.
| ISBN: | 9781041182986 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2025 |
| Author: | Michael Walker |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 484 pages |
| Series: | Film Culture in Transition |
| Genres: |
Media studies History |
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.
Modern Ghost Melodramas features in the following genres: Media studies, History
Modern Ghost Melodramas is available in Paperback, Hardback
Modern Ghost Melodramas was written by Michael Walker and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Modern Ghost Melodramas has 484 pages
Yes it is part of Film Culture in Transition series
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