House of Psychotic Women

"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...'House of Psychotic Women' is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. 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."

Title: House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Expanded Edition)

Editors: Kier La-Janisse

Genre: Non-Fiction

Condition: New