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The real gaze : film theory after Lacan / Todd McGowan.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McGowan, Todd.
Series:
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Film criticism.
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (268 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.
Contents:
Intro
The Real Gaze
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction:From the Imaginary Look to the Real Gaze
Part 1. The Cinema of Fantasy: Exposing the Excess
1. Fantasy and Showing Too Much
2. Theoretical Fantasizing
3.The Politics of Cinematic Fantasy
4. Early Explorations of Fantasy
5. The Coldness of Kubrick
6. Spike Lee's Fantasmatic Explosions
7. Michael Mann and the Ethics of Excess
8. The Bankruptcy of Fantasy in Fellini
Part 2. The Cinema of Desire: Absence amid the Plenitude of the Image
9. Desire and Not Showing Enough
10.Theoretical Desiring
11.The Politics of Cinematic Desire
12.The Impossible Object of the Nouvelle Vague
13.The Banality of Orson Welles
14.Claire Denis and the Other's Failure to Enjoy
15.Political Desire in Italian Neorealism
Part 3. The Cinema of Integration: The Marriage of Desire and Fantasy
16. The Intermixing of Desire and Fantasy
17. The Theoretical Opposition
18. The Politics of the Cinema of Integration
19. The Ordinary Cinema of Ron Howard
20. Steven Spielberg's Search for the Father
21. D. W. Griffith's Suspense
22. Films That Separate
Part 4. The Cinema of Intersection: Collisions of Desire and Fantasy
23.The Separation of Desire and Fantasy
24. Theorizing the Real
25. The Politics of the Cinema of Intersection
26. The Overlapping Worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky
27. Alain Resnais between the Present and the Past
28. Wim Wenders and the Ethics of Fantasizing
29. The Sexual Relationship with David Lynch
Notes
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Z.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-245) and index.
ISBN:
9780791480366
0791480364
9781429471435
1429471433
OCLC:
140253224

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