Lacan And Contemporary Film

Author : Todd Mcgowan
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Frances Restuccia
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Antony Easthope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Todd McGowan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791480366

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The Real Gaze by Todd McGowan Pdf

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

Author : j. jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : 44,5 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 : Noël Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : 0231059558

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Mystifying Movies by Noël Carroll Pdf

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : M. Flisfeder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137110749

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The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film by M. Flisfeder Pdf

Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Žižek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of twenty-first century politics.

Author : Lilian Munk Rösing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628920628

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Pixar with Lacan by Lilian Munk Rösing Pdf

The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications? Pixar with Lacan has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the object a, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films.

Author : Frances L. Restuccia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1628929022

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The Blue Box by Frances L. Restuccia Pdf

Author : Elsie Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199896318

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Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory by Elsie Walker Pdf

Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies, post-colonialism, and queer theory. The films come from disparate temporal and industrial contexts: from Classical Hollywood Gothic melodrama (Rebecca) to contemporary, critically-acclaimed science fiction (Gravity). Along with sound tracks from canonical American films including The Searchers and To Have and Have Not, Walker analyzes independent Australasian films: examples include Heavenly Creatures, a New Zealand film that uses music to empower its queer female protagonists; and Ten Canoes, the first Australian feature film with a script entirely in Aboriginal languages. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory thus not only calls new attention to the significance of sound tracks, but also focuses on the sonic power of characters representing those whose voices have all too often been drowned out. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory is both rigorous and accessible to all students and scholars with a grasp of cinematic and musical structures. Moreover, the book brings together film studies, musicology, history, politics, and culture and therefore resonates across the liberal arts.

Author : Ahmed Elbeshlawy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319406398

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Woman in Lars von Trier’s Cinema, 1996–2014 by Ahmed Elbeshlawy Pdf

This book discusses the figure of Woman in Lars von Trier’s distinctive cinematic productions from 1996 to 2014. It takes the notorious legacy of violence against women in von Trier’s cinema beyond the perceived gender division, elevating the director’s image above being a mere provocateur. By raising fundamental questions about woman, sexuality, and desire, Elbeshlawy shows that Trier’s cinematic Woman is an attempt at creating an image of a genderless subject that is not inhibited by the confines of ideology and culture. But this attempt is perennially ill-fated. And it is this failure that not only fosters viewing enjoyment but also gives the films their political importance, elevating them above both commendations and condemnations of feminist discourse.

Author : Juan-David Nasio
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781635421323

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Hysteria From Freud to Lacan by Juan-David Nasio Pdf

In the English-speaking psychoanalytic world, few diagnostic categories are as controversial as hysteria. This concept, widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices aganist women, has virtually disappeared from our theoretical literature, diagnostic manuals, and traning programs. However far from being gender-bound, hysteria from Jacques Lacan represents a psychic strategy that bears on one of the most fundamental preoccupations of existence: What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man?

Author : Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748689477

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Film Sequels by Carolyn Jess-Cooke Pdf

A study of sequel production within recent Hollywood and beyond in terms of its industrial, cultural and global implications.