The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan

McGowan, Todd

ISBN 10: 0791470407 / ISBN 13: 9780791470404

Editore: State University of New York Press, Albany, 2007

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xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound glossy photo-illustrated wraps. Book Conditions: very light signs of handling else fine, interior bright and unmarked. Contents: Fantasy and showing too much -- Theoretical fantasizing -- The politics of cinematic fantasy -- Early explorations of fantasy -- The coldness of Kubrick -- Spike Lee's fantasmatic explostions -- Michael Mann and the ethics of excess -- The bankruptcy of fantasy in Fellini -- Desire and not showing enough -- Theoretical desiring -- The politics of cinematic desire -- The impossible object of the Nouvelle Vague -- The banality of Orson Welles -- Claire Denis and the other's failure to enjoy -- Political desire in Italian neorealism -- The intermixing of desire and fantasy -- The theoretical opposition -- The politics of the cinema of integration -- The ordinary cinema of Ron Howard -- Steven Spielberg's search for the father -- D.W. Griffith's suspense -- Films that separate -- The separation of desire and fantasy -- Theorizing the real -- The politics of the cinema of intersection -- The overlapping worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky -- Alain Resnais between the present and the past -- Wim Wnders and the ethics of fantasizing -- The sexual relationship with David Lynch. Codice articolo 004560

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Titolo: The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan

Casa editrice: State University of New York Press, Albany

Data di pubblicazione: 2007

Legatura: Wraps

Condizione: Near Fine

Edizione: First Edition, First Printing.

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Riassunto:

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

L'autore:

Todd McGowan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment and The Feminine “No!”: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon, both also published by SUNY Press.