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HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN

EXPANDED EDITION

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Forlag: Fab Press

Utgitt: 2022

448 sider, Innbundet
ISBN: 9781913051211
kr599.00

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In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse’s HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN explored hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens.
In this pioneering work, anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen.
Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart – ‘the eccentric’ – the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.
This sharply-designed book, including a 48-page full-colour section, is packed with 680 rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork throughout, that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure.
Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog called it ‘groundbreaking’, no-wave icon Lydia Lunch called it ‘a masterpiece’, and Molly Ringwald said she ‘devoured this compelling, surprising, and moving book’. To mark its 10th anniversary, Kier-La Janisse and FAB Press have reteamed to produce an expanded edition the book, featuring new writing on 100 more films – many of which were inspired in part by the book itself – and hundreds of new images.

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