Frances Pheasant Kelly: 1 book
Abject Spaces in American Cinema
Institutional Settings, Identity and Psychoanalysis in Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
American 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...
