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​The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films.

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The most interesting, challenging, and eclectic psychoanalytic theorist of our time... there is no writer who works the seams between academic and B-culture with Rickels' intelligence and connoisseurship. Sensitive Skin

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Preface: Late Arrival of the 'New Vampire Lectures' Psycho-Historical Introduction Record One: Playing Catch Up with the Vampire-But with True Blood Record Two: Schauer Scenes Record Three: Alternate History-1960 Record Four: Epidemics of Mass Murder Record Five: Manuals Record Six: Still Working on It Record Seven: Phantoms Record Eight: The Turning Record Nine: The Crowd and the Couple Record Ten: Getting Into B-Pictures Record Eleven: The Emperor's New Closure Record Twelve: By Rule of Tomb Record Thirteen: The Renewal of Psycho Horror by Compact with the Devil Filmography Bibliography Index

The Psycho Records

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 6 September 2016
      ISBN-13 9780231181136
      978-0231181136
      ISBN-10 0231181132
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      ​The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films.

      Trade Review
      The most interesting, challenging, and eclectic psychoanalytic theorist of our time... there is no writer who works the seams between academic and B-culture with Rickels' intelligence and connoisseurship. Sensitive Skin

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Preface: Late Arrival of the 'New Vampire Lectures' Psycho-Historical Introduction Record One: Playing Catch Up with the Vampire-But with True Blood Record Two: Schauer Scenes Record Three: Alternate History-1960 Record Four: Epidemics of Mass Murder Record Five: Manuals Record Six: Still Working on It Record Seven: Phantoms Record Eight: The Turning Record Nine: The Crowd and the Couple Record Ten: Getting Into B-Pictures Record Eleven: The Emperor's New Closure Record Twelve: By Rule of Tomb Record Thirteen: The Renewal of Psycho Horror by Compact with the Devil Filmography Bibliography Index

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