Body in a bed, body lying dead: uncanny women in Joe D'Amato's Italian exploitation cinema

Xavier Mendik

Body in a bed, body lying dead: uncanny women in Joe D'Amato's Italian exploitation cinema

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Abstract

This chapter employs psychoanalytic and gender studies methodologies to consider the work of Italian exploitation cinema director. The chapter explores the filmmaker's interchangeable focus on horror and eroticism, whilst also charting the wider social and gender-based factors underpinning these representations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cinema Inferno
Subtitle of host publication	Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins
Editors	Robert G. Weiner , John Cline
Place of Publication	Plymouth
Publisher	The Scarecrow Press, Inc
Chapter	7
Pages	124-145
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	978-0-8108-7657-6
Publication status	Published (VoR) - 1 Sept 2010

Keywords

cult film
Film and cultural studies

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Body in a bed, body lying dead: uncanny women in Joe D'Amato's Italian exploitation cinema

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