Psychoanalysis Cinema

Author : Vicky Lebeau
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364191

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Psychoanalysis and Cinema by Vicky Lebeau Pdf

Lebeau examines the long and uneven history of developments in modern art, science, and technology that brought pychoanalysis and the cinema together towards the end of the nineteenth century. She explores the subsequent encounters between the two: the seductions of psychoanalysis and cinema as converging, though distinct, ways of talking about dream and desire, image and illusion, shock, and sexuality. Beginning with Freud's encounter with the spectacle of hysteria on display in fin-de-siecle Paris, this study offers a detailed reading of the texts and concepts which generated the field of psychoanalytic film theory.

Author : Glen O. Gabbard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429917707

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Psychoanalysis and Film by Glen O. Gabbard Pdf

In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing range of film material. From Wild Strawberries and Vertigo to Titanic and Being John Malkovich, this intelligent and enjoyable collection succeedes in combining clarity and accessibility with a deeply informed scholarship.

Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Elizabeth Cowie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816629137

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Representing the Woman by Elizabeth Cowie Pdf

Author : Andrea Sabbadini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135444525

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The Couch and the Silver Screen by Andrea Sabbadini Pdf

Only book that focuses on psychoanalysis and European Cinema As well as more academic essays the book contains transcriptions of informal discussions between experts and live audiences

Author : Patrick Fuery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230629486

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Madness and Cinema by Patrick Fuery Pdf

Madness and Cinema offers a radical approach to the issue of what happens when we watch films. By exploring cinema's relationship to meaning and proposing new ways to read cinema through psychoanalysis, this book develops the idea that the spectator engages in what has previously been described as an act of madness. By considering some of the key concepts from Freud and Lacan, as well as ideas from Derrida and Foucault, we are shown the common features that cinema and madness share. The film spectator is shown as the psychotic, neurotic and hysteric, as the book examines the ways in which the foundations of culture and meaning are challenged when we become the spectator of a film.

Author : Agnieszka Piotrowska,Ben Tyrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000008593

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Femininity and Psychoanalysis by Agnieszka Piotrowska,Ben Tyrer Pdf

For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns man’s relationship to the question of ‘woman’ but femininity is also a matter of sexuality and gender and therefore of identity and experience. Drawing together leading academics, including film and literary scholars, clinicians and artists from diverse backgrounds, Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory speaks to the continued relevance of psychoanalytic understanding in a social and political landscape where ideas of gender and sexuality are undergoing profound changes. This transdisciplinary collection crosses boundaries between clinical and psychological discourse and arts and humanities fields to approach the topic of femininity from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. From object relations, to Lacan, to queer theory, the essays here revisit and rethink the debates over what the feminine might be. The volume presents a major new work by leading feminist film scholar, Elizabeth Cowie, in which she presents a first intervention on the topic of film and the feminine for over 20 years, as well as a key essay by the prominent artist and psychoanalyst, Bracha Ettinger. Written by an international selection of contributors, this collection is an indispensable tool for film and literary scholars engaged with psychoanalysts and anybody interested in different approaches to the question of the feminine.

Author : Vicky Lebeau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134842773

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Lost Angels by Vicky Lebeau Pdf

With readings of key `youth' films of the 1980s, this book expands the psychoanalytic framework within which current debates regarding fantasy and spectatorship have been taking place.

Author : Agnieszka Piotrowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317636489

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Embodied Encounters by Agnieszka Piotrowska Pdf

What is the role of the unconscious in our visceral approaches to cinema? Embodied Encounters offers a unique collection of essays written by leading thinkers and writers in film studies, with a guiding principle that embodied and material existence can, and perhaps ought to, also allow for the unconscious. The contributors embrace work which has brought ‘the body’ back into film theory and question why psychoanalysis has been excluded from more recent interrogations. The chapters included here engage with Jung and Freud, Lacan and Bion, and Klein and Winnicott in their interrogations of contemporary cinema and the moving image. In three parts the book presents examinations of both classic and contemporary films including Black Swan, Zero Dark Thirty and The Dybbuk: Part 1 – The Desire, the Body and the Unconscious Part 2 – Psychoanalytical Theories and the Cinema Part 3 – Reflections and Destructions, Mirrors and Transgressions Embodied Encounters is an eclectic volume which presents in one book the voices of those who work with different psychoanalytical paradigms. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, scholars and students of film and culture studies and film makers.

Author : Janet Bergstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520207483

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Endless Night by Janet Bergstrom Pdf

On film theory and psychoanalysis

Author : Harriet E. Margolis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317928737

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The Cinema Ideal by Harriet E. Margolis Pdf

This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late ‘60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book was originally published. Psychoanalysis enables a discussion of the cinema’s role as a social and political force and this book enters a discourse of the politics of representation. Reconstructing discussion of basic issues, the book addresses our instincts and defences in reacting to cinema, the similarity between mental processes and cinematic technique, narrative techniques and the ‘cinematic apparatus’. Importantly, the book concerns itself with the concept of ideology and how the filmviewing experience engages the spectator in a complex net of stimuli presenting representations of an ideal world and the effect of this within film studies.

Author : Robert Geal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032027762

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Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis by Robert Geal Pdf

This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment. Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis argues that these films exploit cinema's inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction. The ideological nature of the 'lifeboats' on which these survivors escape, moreover, is accompanied by additional elements that constitute contemporary Cartesian subjectivity, such as class and gender binaries, restored nuclear families, individual as opposed to social responsibilities for disasters, and so on. The book conducts extensive analyses of these processes, before considering alternative forms of filmmaking that might avoid the dangers of this existing form of storytelling. The book's new ecosophy and film theory establishes that Cartesian subjectivity is an environmentally destructive 'symptom' that everyday linguistic activities like watching films reinforce. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of film studies, literary studies (specifically ecocriticism), cultural studies, ecolinguistics, and ecosophy.

Author : Andrea Sabbadini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317806134

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Moving Images by Andrea Sabbadini Pdf

The experience of watching films – entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be – can be enriched by the opportunity to reflect upon them from unconventional perspectives.Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film: Moving Images offers its readers in an accessible language one such viewpoint, informed by Andrea Sabbadini's psychoanalytic insights and therapeutic experience. Using a psychoanalytic interpretative approach, some twenty-five important feature films are discussed as the artistic vehicles of new, unsuspected meanings. The first chapter looks at films which represent psychoanalytic work itself, having therapists and their patients as their main characters. The remaining five chapters cover movies on themes of central concern to analytic theorists and clinicians, such as childhood and adolescent development, and varieties of intimate relationships among adults. The latter include romantic love and its disturbing association to death fantasies; eroticism and prostitution; and voyeuristic desire – a significant phenomenon in this context given its parallels with the activity of watching films. Andrea Sabbadini's psychoanalytic approach, which explores the part played by unconscious factors in shaping the personality and behaviour of film characters, is used to interpret their internal world and the emotional conflicts engendered by the vicissitudes they live through. The book is completed by a filmography and biographical notes on film directors. Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film presents the relationship between cinema and psychoanalysis as a complex one. These two most different of cultural phenomena are shown to share a wish on the part of their practitioners to uncover profound truths about the human condition, and to provide a language with which to describe them. Going beyond futile ‘psycho-historical’ attempts to analyse filmmakers through their products, or a superficial application of psychoanalytic concepts to film, Sabbadini shows how both cinema and psychoanalysis can benefit from a meaningful interdisciplinary dialogue between them. The book will be of special interest to practicing psychoanalysts and students, scholars and historians of film studies.

Author : j. jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628920864

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Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game by Todd McGowan Pdf

The Film Theory in Practice Series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The first book in the series, Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game, offers a concise introduction to psychoanalytic film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Jean Renoir's classic film. It traces the development of psychoanalytic film theory through its foundation in the thought of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan through its contemporary manifestation in the work of theorists like Slavoj Žižek and Joan Copjec. This history will help students and scholars who are eager to learn more about this important area of film theory and bring the concepts of psychoanalytic film theory into practice through a detailed interpretation of the film.