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Giving Up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films
by Fowkes, Katherine A
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0814327214
- ISBN 13
- 9780814327210
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.: Wayne State Univ Pr, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Slight cover wear. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. "Giving Up the Ghost" provides an in-depth analysis of comedy and romantic ghost films. Using post-Freudian, Lacanian, and feminist approaches, "Giving Up the Ghost" examines a range of popular movies, including Heaven Can Wait (1978), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), and Ghost (1990). Katherine A. Fowkes outlines startling similarities among recent ghost films and films from the late 1930s and 1940s, speculating on the significance of ghosts and angels as subjects of film narrative..
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- Bookseller
- The Unskoolbookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024915
- Title
- Giving Up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films
- Author
- Fowkes, Katherine A
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0814327214
- ISBN 13
- 9780814327210
- Publisher
- Wayne State Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Film, Film Studies, Movies, Ghosts, Cinema
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.