The Receptacle for all that is Monstrous and Vile: The Island Asylum in Scorsese’s Shutter Island
In Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010), the gothic mental asylum metonymises the symbolic powers of madness. The asylum’s position on an isolated island encodes a dichotomy between nature and culture homologous to the film’s depiction of madness and rationality, while marking the asylum as an uncanny do...
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| Idioma: | Inglês |
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James Cook University
2011-12-01
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| Col·lecció: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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| Accés en línia: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3416/3354 |
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