Psychoanalysis And Cinema The Imaginary Signifier

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203809
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imaginary Signifier written by Christian Metz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." --American Film Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333366400
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Imaginary Signifier written by Christian Metz and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Manchel
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838631867
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Study written by Frank Manchel and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four volumes of Film Study include a fresh approach to each of the basic categories in the original edition. Volume one examines the film as film; volume two focuses on the thematic approach to film; volume three draws on the history of film; and volume four contains extensive appendices listing film distributors, sources, and historical information as well as an index of authors, titles, and film personalities.

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540647
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film written by Christian Metz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept of enunciation to articulate how films "speak" and explore where this communication occurs, offering critical direction for theorists who struggle with the phenomena of new media. If a film frame contains another frame, which frame do we emphasize? And should we consider this staging an impersonal act of enunciation? Consulting a range of genres and national trends, Metz builds a novel theory around the placement and subjectivity of screens within screens, which pulls in—and forces him to reassess—his work on authorship, film language, and the position of the spectator. Metz again takes up the linguistic and theoretical work of Benveniste, Genette, Casetti, and Bordwell, drawing surprising conclusions that presage current writings on digital media. Metz's analysis enriches work on cybernetic emergence, self-assembly, self-reference, hypertext, and texts that self-produce in such a way that the human element disappears. A critical introduction by Cormac Deane bolsters the connection between Metz's findings and nascent digital-media theory, emphasizing Metz's keen awareness of the methodological and philosophical concerns we wrestle with today.

Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113521316X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Cinema written by E. Ann Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vicky Lebeau
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364192
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Cinema written by Vicky Lebeau and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vincent F. Rocchio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292784961
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema of Anxiety written by Vincent F. Rocchio and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stephen Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253159137
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions of Cinema written by Stephen Heath and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635421063
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lacan and Contemporary Film written by Todd Mcgowan and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Janet Bergstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520207486
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Endless Night written by Janet Bergstrom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On film theory and psychoanalysis