Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood

By Sarah Arnold

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137014113
• ISBN13: 9781137014115
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"