Projected shadows : psychoanalytic reflections on the representation of loss in European cinema / edited by Andrea Sabbadini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabbadini, Andrea.

Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis

The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxi, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is discussed in its many aspects, including: loss of hope and innocence, of youth, and consciousness, of freedom and loss through death. Many other themes familiar to psychoanalytic discourse are explored in the process, such as: Establishment and resolution of Oedipal conflicts, Representation of pathological characters on the screen, Use of unconscious defence mechanisms, The interplay of dreams, reality and fantasy.

Projected Shadows aims to deepen the ongoing constructive dialogue between psychoanalysis and film. Andrea Sabbadini has assembled a remarkable number of internationally renowned contributors, both academic film scholars and psychoanalysts from a variety of cultural backgrounds, who use an array of contemporary methodologies to apply psychoanalytic thinking to film. This original collection will appeal to anyone passionate about film, as well as professionals, academics and students interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts.

Contents:

1 The night of melancholia and the daylight of mourning: Anne Fontaine's Comment j'ai tue mon pere / T. Jefferson Kline 6

2 Quest for a lost mother: Alina Marazzi's Un'ora sola ti vorrei / Pietro Roberto Goisis 21

3 Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Keren Yedaya's Or (Mon Tresor) / Shimshon Wigoder, Emanuel Berman 35

4 The anorexic paradox: Matteo Garrone's First Love / Maria Vittoria Costantini, Paola Golinelli 46

5 Reparation and the empathic other: Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg / Ralf Zwiebel 56

6 The talking cure from Freud to Almodovar: Hable con ella / Andrea Sabbadini 65

7 Intergenerational transmission: the Holocaust in Central European cinema / Catherine Portuges 73

8 Cut and laced: traumatism and fetishism in Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou / Andrew Webber 92

9 Two short films by Jan Svankmajer: Jabberwocky and Punch and Judy / Helen Taylor Robinson 102

10 Compilation film as 'deferred action': Vincent Monnikendam's Mother Dao, the Turtle-like / Laura Mulvey 109

11 Moving beyond the constraints of the mortal self: universal images of narcissism in Jan Troell's The Flight of the Eagle / Lissa Weinstein 119

12 Tricycles, bicycles, life cycles: psychoanalytic perspectives on childhood loss and transgenerational parenting in Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendez-Vous / Alexander Stein 132

13 Loss, mourning and desire in midlife: Francois Ozon's Under the Sand and Swimming Pool / Diana Diamond 145

14 Three sisters: sibling knots in Bergman's Cries and Whispers / Andrea Sabbadini 160

15 Time regained: the complex magic of reverse motion / Ian Christie 168

Films index 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

ISBN:

0415428165

9780415428163

0415428173

9780415428170

OCLC:

76901775