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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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A Paperback / softback by Laurence Rickels

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    Publisher: Columbia University Press
    Publication Date: 06/09/2016
    ISBN13: 9780231181136, 978-0231181136
    ISBN10: 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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