@article{Balanzategui_2011, title={The Receptacle for all that is Monstrous and Vile: The Island Asylum in Scorsese’s Shutter Island}, volume={10}, url={https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3416}, DOI={10.25120/etropic.10.0.2011.3416}, abstractNote={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 domain subversive of the rational structures of mainland society.}, journal={eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics}, author={Balanzategui, Jessica}, year={2011}, month={Dec.} }