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Madness and Cinema: Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and Culture

By Patrick Fuery

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0333948254, 9780333948255, 9780230629486
LCC
PN1995.9.P783 F84 2004
Open Library ID
OL3686990M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
558 kB (571903 bytes)
Pages
224\190
Topic
Art Cinema
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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