Jacques Lacan And Cinema

Author : Pietro Bianchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429915307

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Jacques Lacan and Cinema by Pietro Bianchi Pdf

Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the intervention on the mirror stage in the Forties to the elaboration of the object-gaze in the Sixties. As a consequence, a long tradition of film studies used Lacanian psychoanalysis in order to explain the influence of the subject of the unconscious on the cinematographic experience. What is less known is how the late Lacanian reflection on the topic of analytic formalization opened up a further dimension of the visual that goes beyond the subjective experience of vision: not in the direction of a mystical ineffable but rather toward a subtractive mathematisation of space, as in non-Euclidean geometries. In an exhaustive overview of the whole Lacanian theorization of the visual, counterpointed by a confrontation with several thinkers of cinema (Eisenstein, Straub-Huillet, Deleuze, Ranciere), the book will lead the reader toward the discovery of the most counterintuitive approaches of Lacanian psychoanalysis to the topic of vision.

Author : Todd Mcgowan
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781635421064

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Lacan and Contemporary Film by Todd Mcgowan Pdf

This unique volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and recent trends in contemporary cinema. Though Lacanian theory has long had a privileged place in the analysis of film, film theory has tended to ignore some of Lacan's most important ideas. As a result, Lacanian film theory has never properly integrated the disruptive and troubling aspects of the filmic experience that result from the encounter with the Real that this experience makes possible. Many contemporary theorists emphasize the importance of the encounter with the Real in Lacan's thought, but rarely in discussions of film. By bringing the encounter with the Real into the dialogue of film theory, the contributors to this volume present a new version of Lacan to the world of film studies. These essays bring this rediscovered Lacan to bear on contemporary cinema through analysis of a wide variety of films, including Memento, Eyes Wide Shut, Breaking the Waves, and Fight Club. The films discussed here demand a turn to Lacanian theory because they emphasize the disruptive role of the Real and of jouissance in the experience of the human subject. There is a growing number of films in contemporary cinema that speak to film's power to challenge and disturb the complacency of spectators, and the essays in Lacan and Contemporary Film analyze some of these films and bring their power to light. Because of its dual focus on developments in Lacanian theory and in contemporary film, this collection serves as both an accessible introduction to current Lacanian film theory and an introduction to the study of contemporary cinema. Each essay provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of one or more important films, and at the same time, each explains and utilizes key concepts of Lacanian theory. The collection stages an encounter between Lacanian theory and contemporary cinema, and the result is the enrichment of both.

Author : Thomas J. Connelly
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810139237

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Cinema of Confinement by Thomas J. Connelly Pdf

In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess. Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.

Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135213169

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Psychoanalysis and Cinema by E. Ann Kaplan Pdf

These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Years of Our Lives, Three Faces of Eve, Tender is the Night, Pandora's Box, Secrets of the Soul, and the works of Jacques Tourneur (director of The Cat People and other features).

Author : j. jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137116949

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Psychoanalyzing Cinema by j. jagodzinski Pdf

The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the questions that are being raised within contemporary cinematic studies.

Author : Ben Tyrer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319309422

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Out of the Past by Ben Tyrer Pdf

This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just beginning. The chapters engage with Lacanian psychoanalysis to perform a meta-critical analysis of the writing on noir in the last seven decades and to present an original theory of criticism and historiography for the cinema. The book is also an act of mourning; for a lost past of the cinema, for a longstanding critical tradition and for film noir. It asks how we can talk about film noir when, in fact, film noir doesn’t exist. The answer starts with Lacan and a refusal to relinquish psychoanalysis. Lacanian theories of retroactivity and ontology can be read together with film history, genre and narrative to show the ways in which theory and history, past and present, cinema and psychoanalysis are fundamentally knotted together. Tyrer also explores Lacan through particular noir films, such as Double Indemnity andThe Maltese Falcon — and demonstrates the possibilities for a Lacanian Film Studies (as one that engages fully with Lacan’s entire body of work) that has hitherto not been realised.

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791480366

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The Real Gaze by Todd McGowan Pdf

Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film theory. Historically film scholars have located the gaze on the side of the spectator; however, Todd McGowan positions it within the filmic image, where it has the radical potential to disrupt the spectator's sense of identity and challenge the foundations of ideology. This book demonstrates several distinct cinematic forms that vary in terms of how the gaze functions within the films. Through a detailed investigation of directors such as Orson Welles, Claire Denis, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, and David Lynch, McGowan explores the political, cultural, and existential ramifications of these differing roles of the gaze.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135300005

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Enjoy Your Symptom! by Slavoj Zizek Pdf

The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch - a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from the last giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

Author : Frances L. Restuccia
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080475182X

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Amorous Acts by Frances L. Restuccia Pdf

Amorous Acts uses psychoanalytic concepts to show how queer theory is operating to put in place a non-heterosexist social order.

Author : Stephen Heath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 025315913X

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Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath Pdf

"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -- Semiotica ..". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816669950

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Out of Time by Todd McGowan Pdf

A new temporal aesthetic in films such as "Memento," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "2046," and "The Hangover."

Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317895671

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Contemporary Film Theory by Antony Easthope Pdf

During the twentieth century, the medium of film has developed as a means of understanding the complexity of modern life. Since 1968, film theory has concentrated not so much on theme or content but on the deeper question of how the medium works on its viewer. Film theory has been profoundly influenced by the writings of such modern thinkers as Saussure, Freud, Lacan, Anthusser, Derrida and Kristeva. It combines modes of textual analysis relating to linguistics and semiology, a Marxist reading of ideology, and theories of subjectivity, the spectator and gender redefined by psychoanalysis. This judicious selection from key work by Stephen Heath, Fredric Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film. It provides a consistent and developing analysis that will be of interest to students concerned with film and film studies, as well as students of cultural, media and communication studies.

Author : Vincent F. Rocchio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292784963

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Cinema of Anxiety by Vincent F. Rocchio Pdf

The "new" realism of Italian cinema after World War II represented and in many ways attempted to contain the turmoil of a society struggling to rid itself of Fascism while fighting off the threat of radical egalitarianism at the same time. In this boldly revisionist book, Vincent F. Rocchio combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology and Marxist critical theory to examine the previously neglected relationship between Neorealist films and the historical spectators they address. Rocchio builds his analysis around case studies of the films Rome: Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La Terra Trema, Bitter Rice, and Senso. Through the lens of psychoanalysis, he challenges the traditional understanding of Neorealism as a progressive cinema and instead reveals the anxieties it encodes: a society in political turmoil, an economic system in collapse, and a national cinema in ruins; while war, occupation, collaboration, and retaliation remain a part of everyday life. These case studies demonstrate how Lacanian psychoanalysis can play a key role in analyzing the structure of cinematic discourse and its strategies of containment. As one of the first books outside of feminist film theory to bring the ideas of Lacan to theories of cinema, this book offers innovative methods that reinvigorate film analysis. Clear and detailed insights into both Italian culture and the films under investigation will make this engaging reading for anyone interested in film and cultural studies.

Author : Frances Restuccia
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441107572

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The Blue Box by Frances Restuccia Pdf

Looks at films that map the spectator's private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen, following Kristeva's sparse, but revolutionary, film theory.

Author : Elizabeth Cowie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816629137

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Representing the Woman by Elizabeth Cowie Pdf