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House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Book by Kier-la Janisse · 1 quotes · Breakdown, Misogyny, Psychosis

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“The truth, and the threat it poses, can be too overwhelming to bear, and for many women in the aftermath of the sexual revolution, the truth was that their experiences were being dismissed by the men in their lives. Although many of the women in the films of this period are clearly meant to be schizophrenic, sociopathic or downright psychotic, the underlying implication (and there always is one in horror films) is that these ‘illnesses’ come in at the break between the woman’s experience and the man’s experience of the same situation- and what is ‘true’ or ‘right’ is often whatever the man says it is.”

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