What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma
In his pioneering study of Grande Dame Guignol (also referred to as hag horror or psycho-biddy), a female-centric 1960s subgenre of horror film, Peter Shelley explains that the grande dame, a stock character in this form of cinematic expression, “may pine for a lost youth and glory, or she may be tr...
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Lodz University Press
2019-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/5898 |