Overview

"?The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called ""psychos"" if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American heartland. Drawing on his experience with German film, Hitchcock packed inside his shower stall the essence of schauer, the German cognate meaning ""horror."" Later serial horror film production has post-traumatically flashed back to Hitchcock's shower scene. In the end, though, this book argues the effect is therapeutically finite. This extensive case study summons the genealogical readings of philosopher and psychoanalyst Laurence Rickels. The book opens not with another reading of Hitchcock's 1960 film but with an evaluation of various updates to vampirism over the years. It concludes with a close look at the rise of demonic and infernal tendencies in horror movies since the 1990s and the problem of the psycho as our most uncanny double in close quarters."

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Author:   Laurence Rickels
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Wallflower Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780231181136

ISBN 10:   0231181132
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   06 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface: Late Arrival of the 'New Vampire Lectures' Psycho-Historical Introduction Record One: Playing Catch Up with the Vampire-But with True Blood Record Two: Schauer Scenes Record Three: Alternate History-1960 Record Four: Epidemics of Mass Murder Record Five: Manuals Record Six: Still Working on It Record Seven: Phantoms Record Eight: The Turning Record Nine: The Crowd and the Couple Record Ten: Getting Into B-Pictures Record Eleven: The Emperor's New Closure Record Twelve: By Rule of Tomb Record Thirteen: The Renewal of Psycho Horror by Compact with the Devil Filmography Bibliography Index

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The most interesting, challenging, and eclectic psychoanalytic theorist of our time... there is no writer who works the seams between academic and B-culture with Rickels' intelligence and connoisseurship. * Sensitive Skin * The most interesting, challenging, and eclectic psychoanalytic theorist of our time... there is no writer who works the seams between academic and B-culture with Rickels' intelligence and connoisseurship. Sensitive Skin

The most interesting, challenging, and eclectic psychoanalytic theorist of our time... there is no writer who works the seams between academic and B-culture with Rickels' intelligence and connoisseurship. Sensitive Skin

Author Information

Laurence A. Rickels is professor in art and theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. He is the author of Aberrations of Mourning (1988), The Case of California (2001), Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002), The Vampire Lectures (1999), The Devil Notebooks (2008), Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema (2008), I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick (2010), and Germany: A Science Fiction (2015).

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