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The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema

The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema

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PhilosophyFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1441107576
ISBN13: 9781441107572
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 1 2012
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 fantasy-by 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.

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