Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.

Author: S. Arnold
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137014115

About the Author
Sarah Arnold is Lecturer in Film and Digital Media at University College Falmouth, UK. Her research interests include the history of the moving image, postmodernism and film, and women on film. She has presented at a number of international conferences, and recently contributed to the edited collection, Bound by Love (edited by Laura D'Amore). She has also written for the journal, Jura Gentium Cinema.