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The Uses of Phobia

其他書名	Essays on Literature and Film
出版	Wiley, 2010-06-21
主題	Literary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLanguage Arts & Disciplines / ReferenceLanguage Arts & Disciplines / General
ISBN	14443338449781444333848
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RCN-QgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource – and one with a history. They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they could not otherwise have said or shown; and in this way to get profoundly and provocatively to grips with the modern condition.

Makes extensive reference to original readings of a wide range of literary texts and films, from the 1850s to the present
Places a strong emphasis on the value phobia has held, in particular, for women activists, writers, and film-makers
Discusses a range of writers and film-makers from Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot through Hardy, Joyce, Ford and Woolf; from Jean Renoir through Hitchcock and Truffaut to Margarethe von Trotta and Pedro Almodóvar
Intervention in key debates in cultural theory and cultural history