The Couch And The Silver Screen

Author : Andrea Sabbadini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135444518

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The Couch and the Silver Screen by Andrea Sabbadini Pdf

The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists, psychoanalysts with a specific expertise in the interpretation of films, as well as the filmmakers themselves. This composite approach offers a fascinating insight into the world of cinema. The Couch and the Silver Screen is illustrated with stills throughout and Andrea Sabbadini's introduction provides a theoretical and historical context for the current state of psychoanalytic studies of films. The book is organised into four clear sections - Set and Stage, Working Through Trauma, Horror Perspectives and Documenting Internal Worlds - which form the basis for engaging chapters including: easily readable and jargon-free film reviews. essays on specific subjects such as perspectives on the horror film genre and adolescent development. transcripts of live debates among film directors including Bernardo Bertolucci, actors, critics and psychoanalysts discussing films. The cultural richness of the material presented, combined with the originality of multidisciplinary dialogues on European cinema, makes this book appealing not only to film buffs, but also to professionals, academics and students interested in the application of psychoanalytic ideas to the arts.

Author : Maureen Howard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014303555X

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The Silver Screen by Maureen Howard Pdf

In the twilight days of silent film, Isabel Maher renounces the glitter and glamour of Hollywood to pursue a life as a wife and mother, as her three children struggle against the lives she has scripted for them--Joe, a Jesuit priest; Rita, who runs off with a gangster who turns state's evidence; and Gemma, angry and ambitious, who pursues fame as a photographer. Reprint.

Author : Lucy Bolton,Christina Siggers Manson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Italians in motion pictures
ISBN : 3039114166

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Italy on Screen by Lucy Bolton,Christina Siggers Manson Pdf

Selected papers presented at the Italy on Screen Conference, held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, in 2007.

Author : Patton Oswalt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451673210

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Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt Pdf

The New York Times best-selling author of Zombie Spaceship Wasteland reveals his addiction to film between 1995 and 1999, during which he absorbed classics and new releases three days a week and applied what he learned in these films to acting, writing, comedy and relationships. 70,000 first printing.

Author : Hunter Vaughan,Tom Conley
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783088249

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The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory by Hunter Vaughan,Tom Conley Pdf

The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory offers a unique and progressive survey of screen theory and how it can be applied to a range of moving-image texts and sociocultural contexts. Focusing on the “handbook” angle, the book includes only original essays from established authors in the field and new scholars on the cutting edge of helping screen theory evolve for the twenty-first-century vistas of new media, social shifts and geopolitical change. This method guarantees a strong foundation and clarity for the canon of film theory, while also situating it as part of a larger genealogy of art theories and critical thought, and reveals the relevance and utility of film theories and concepts to a wide array of expressive practices and specified arguments. The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory is at once inclusive, applicable and a chance for writers to innovate and really play with where they think the field is, can and should be heading.

Author : Ian Christie,Andrew Moor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838717131

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The Cinema of Michael Powell by Ian Christie,Andrew Moor Pdf

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them 'the most successful experimental film-makers in the world'). In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his film-making skills, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating them to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance.

Author : Andreas Hamburger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429909955

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Women and Images of Men in Cinema by Andreas Hamburger Pdf

Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception. On the other hand, the movie is embedded in a cultural tradition: Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bete (1946) takes up the classic motif of the animal groom from the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius' The Golden Ass (originally a tale about the stunning momentum of genuine female desire), liberates it from its baroque educational moral (a girl's virtue and prudence will help her to overcome her sexual fears), and turns it into a boyhood story: inside the ugly rascal there is a good, but relatively boring prince - at least in comparison to the monsters of film history. In the seventy years since it was made, La Belle et la Bete has inspired numerous interpretations and has been employed by theorists of all genres and interests.

Author : Shawn McIntosh,Marc Leverette
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461664369

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Zombie Culture by Shawn McIntosh,Marc Leverette Pdf

Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing video game industry? What makes zombies such widespread symbols of horror and dread, and how have portrayals of zombies in movies changed and evolved to fit contemporary fears, anxieties, and social issues? Zombies have held a unique place in film and popular culture throughout most of the 20th century. Rare in that this enduring monster type originated in non-European folk culture rather than the Gothic tradition from which monsters like vampires and werewolves have emerged, zombies have in many ways superseded these Gothic monsters in popular entertainment and the public imagination and have increasingly been used in discussions ranging from the philosophy of mind to computer lingo to the business press. Zombie Culture brings together scholars from a variety of fields, including cinema studies, popular culture, and video game studies, who have examined the living dead through a variety of lenses. By looking at how portrayals of zombies have evolved from their folkloric roots and entered popular culture, readers will gain deeper insights into what zombies mean in terms of the public psyche, how they represent societal fears, and how their evolving portrayals continue to reflect underlying beliefs of The Other, contagion, and death.

Author : Luana Ciavola
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781848766808

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Revolutionary Desire in Italian Cinema by Luana Ciavola Pdf

Revolutionary Desire in Italian Cinema is the first book to draw on psychoanalytical concepts and film theories to examine the critical tendency of Italian cinema and the way in which auteur Italian filmmakers have expressed their counter-ideological thought and criticism against Italian society. The book examines how by being committed to Italian social reality, Italian cinema expresses a desire for revolt against the status quo and the dominant ideological order. Taking as case studies Bernardo Bertolucci’s Prima della rivoluzione, Marco Bellocchio’s I pugni in tasca, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Porcile, Nanni Moretti’s Ecce Bombo and La messa è finita, the book relies on socio-historiographical theories through which Luana Ciavola discusses how plot and characters create a sense of revolt against the both social order and values such as family, religion and bourgeois ethics. The book confirms the central role of Italian cinema in a historical and political context, insofar as it includes a substantial background which highlights aspects of Italian history never considered before in a study on Italian cinema. Revolutionary Desire in Italian Cinema is aimed at academics, researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students and all lovers of Italian cinema.

Author : Laura Stephenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798765105641

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Cinema, Suffering and Psychoanalysis by Laura Stephenson Pdf

Cinema, Suffering and Psychoanalysis explores psychological disorder as common to the human condition using a unique three-angled approach: psychoanalysis recognises the inherent suffering encountered by each subject due to developmental phases; psychology applies specific categorisation to how this suffering manifests; cinema depicts suffering through a combination of video and aural elements. Functioning as a culturally reflexive medium, the six feature films analysed, including Black Swan (2010) and The Machinist (2004), represent some of the most common psychological disorders and lived experiences of the contemporary era. This book enters unchartered terrain in cinema scholarship by combining clinical psychology's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Five (DSM-V) to organise and diagnose each character, and psychoanalysis to track the origin, mechanism and affect of the psychological disorder within the narrative trajectory of each film. Lacan's theories on the infantile mirror phase, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic, Žižek's theories on the Real, the big Other and the Event, and Kristeva's theories on abjection and melancholia work in combination with the DSM's classification of symptoms to interpret six contemporary pieces of cinema. By taking into consideration that origin, mechanism, affect and symptomatology are part of an interconnected group, this book explores psychological disorder as part of the human condition, something which contributes to and informs personal identity. More specifically, this research refutes the notion that psychological disorder and psychological health exist as a binary, instead recognising that what has traditionally been pathologised, may instead be viewed as variations on human identity.

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780521518604

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Cinema and Classical Texts by Martin M. Winkler Pdf

This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.

Author : Kenneth R. Morefield
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443832793

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Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema by Kenneth R. Morefield Pdf

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II continues the work presented in the first volume of this title, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2008. It provides informed yet accessible articles that will give readers an introduction to masters of world cinema whose works explore the themes of human spirituality and religious faith. Volume II contains essays dealing with canonical directors notably absent from the first entry of the series (such as Godard and Kurosawa) while also including examinations of contemporary auteurs who are still actively working (for example, Andersson, and von Trier). While retaining a truly international emphasis—it includes essays about directors from the United States, Canada, Iran, Sweden, India, Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Australia, and Japan—Volume II also acts as an important contribution to canon formation, illustrating the complexity and variety in the films of those who are truly the masters of world cinema. Built solidly around close, formal readings of selective films, the essays in Volume II also demonstrate familiarity with film history and bring insight from such varied disciplines as New Testament Studies, Clinical Psychology, Art History, and Medieval History. It also seeks to broaden the understanding of ‘faith’ and ‘spirituality,’ examining how the meaning of such terms changes as the cultures that produce the art that defines them continues to evolve.

Author : N. S. Murray
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326105655

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Silver Screen by N. S. Murray Pdf

Author : Michelle C. Pautz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498539135

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Civil Servants on the Silver Screen by Michelle C. Pautz Pdf

This book demonstrates how government bureaucracy is portrayed in the top ten box office grossing films from 2000–2015. Perhaps unsurprisingly, government is generally portrayed poorly, but individual government bureaucrats are typically depicted positively.

Author : Robert W. Rieber,Robert J. Kelly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461471752

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Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream by Robert W. Rieber,Robert J. Kelly Pdf

​This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Arising at the same time as Freud’s influential ideas, cinema has been intertwined with the wishes and fears of the greater culture and has served as a means of experiencing those feelings in a communal and taming environment. From Munsterberg’s original pronouncements in the early 20th century about the psychology of cinema, through the pioneering films of Melies, the works of the German expressionists, to James Bond and today’s superheroes this book weaves a narrative highlighting the importance of the social dream. It develops the idea that no art form goes beyond the ordinary process of consciousness in the same way as film, reflecting, as it does, the cognitive, emotional, and volitional aspects of human nature.​