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1 online resource (186 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: intimate film in revolt; 2 Black and Blue: Kieslowski's melancholia; 3 "The void of another enjoyment": Breaking the Waves; 4 The use of perversion: Secretary or The Piano Teacher?; 5 Unveiling fetishism in the society of the spectacle: White, Female Perversions, Mulholland Drive; 6 Psycho: the ultimate seduction; 7 Intimate Volver; 8 The virtue of blushing: turning anxiety into shame in Haneke's Caché; Bibliography ; Index. |
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Informed by the theory of Julia Kristeva, Frances Restuccia analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. She examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasyby enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen. Such absorption is a function of the semiotic dimension of the film, which offers the spectator an experience of intimacy, negativity, the gaze, and death. Kristeva stresses that cinema has the power to bestow. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Kristeva, Julia, 1941-
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Kristeva, Julia, 1941- |
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Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
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Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981. |
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects. |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Restuccia, Frances. Blue Box : Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2012 9781441107572 |
| ISBN |
9781441127730 (electronic book) |
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1441127739 (electronic book) |
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