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020 _a1299664105
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020 _a9780755698417
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020 _a9780857722140
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020 _a9781299664104
_q(electronic book)
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020 _z9780857722140
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082 _a791.4/3653
_223
100 _aPheasant-Kelly, Frances,
_d1960-
_eauthor.
_917994
245 _aAbject Spaces in American Cinema :
_bInstitutional Settings, Identity and Psychoanalysis in Film /
_cFrances Pheasant-Kelly.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aLondon, England :
_bI.B. Tauris,
_c2019.
264 _a[London, England] :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (vii, 279 pages) :
_billustrations (black and white).
366 _b20130515
_cIP
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
520 _aAmerican cinema abounds with films set in prisons, asylums, hospitals and other institutions. Rather than orderly places of recovery and rehabilitation, these institutional settings emerge as abject spaces of control and repression in which adult identity is threatened as a narrative impetus. Exploring the abject through issues as diverse as racism, mental illness or the preservation of bodies for organ donation, this book analyses a range of films including 'The Shawshank Redemption' (1994), 'Full Metal Jacket' (1987) and 'Girl, Interrupted' (1999) through to cult films such as 'Carrie' (1976.
650 _aAbjection in motion pictures.
_917995
650 _aMotion pictures
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_917996
650 _aFilm theory & criticism
_2bicssc
_917997
856 _3Abstract with links to full text
_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9780755698417?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942 _cEBK
999 _c13195
_d13195