Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and Cinema - Brossura

Lebeau, Vicky

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415107210 ISBN 13: 9780415107211

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1994

Riassunto

Re-reading Freud's writing on femininity, fantasy and social identification, Lost Angels expands the psychoanalytic framework within which contemporary debates regarding fantasy and spectatorship have been taking place.

Vicky Lebeau takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as her starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through feminist and critical theories of spectatorship and cinema.

Investigating how psychoanalysis explains fantasy as a form of preoccupation which cuts across both 'private' and 'public' forms of fantasy, Lebeau links discussion of the female spectator with the so-called 'malaise' of today's mass culture through her close readings of three key 'youth' films of the 1980's - John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Francis Coppola's Rumble Fish and Tim Hunter's River's Edge.

Lost Angels is a ground-breading addition to current feminist film theory and essential reading for all students of film.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Vicky Lebeau has published widely in the fields of psychoanalysis and visual culture. She has particular interests in the topics of sexuality, fantasy and representation.

In psychoanalysis, she has particular interests in Freud, Winnicott, Andre Green, Jean Laplanche, Serge Leclaire, Michael Eigen, Joyce McDougall and Christopher Bollas; interests in 19th and 20th century writers and film-makers include George Eliot, Doris Lessing, Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Haneke.

Product Description:

In ost Angels , Vicky Lebeau re-reads Freudian theories of femininity to develop a remarkable contribution to spectatorship theory. Lebeau discusses Freud's distinctive preoccupations with female fantasy and femininity - from his studies on hysteria and the female romance' at the origins of psychoanalysis to the analyses of mass psychology in the 1920s and 1930s. Lost Angels exposes how Freud's accounting of femininity is intimately tied to his changing representation of the paternal, and explores his ensuing differentation between masculine and feminine fantasy through critical and feminist theories of spectatorship and cinema. Discussing three popular youth' films of the 1980s - John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish and Tim Hunter's River's Edge - Lebeau works through issues of sexual difference and social identification and creates a dialogue between feminism, psychoanalysis and the critical theory of the Frankfurt school. Intervening in current debates on femininity, fantasy and identification, Lebeau suggests that, for Freud, femininity is always both a sexed and a social category which cannot be understood outside of its relation to the father. Lost Angels is a ground-breaking addition to feminist film theory and essential reading for all students of film, gender and cultural studies.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415107210
• ISBN 13: 9780415107211
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 184