{"product_id":"9781903254691","title":"House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films","description":"House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.\u003cbr\u003eCinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.\u003cbr\u003eNamed after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured's The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.\u003cbr\u003eThis sharply-designed book with a 32-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. \u003cp\u003e* comprehensive appendix\u003cbr\u003e* 1000 rare photos, many in color\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FAB Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043711140080,"sku":"9781903254691","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781903254691_p0.jpg?v=1763612376","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781903254691","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}