Screen LibraryCinema, technologies of visibility, and the reanimation of desire
Exploring the dead/alive figure in films such as The Ring, American Beauty, and The Elephant Man, Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Exploring the dead/alive figure in films such as The Ring, American Beauty, and The Elephant Man, Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230110922, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
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9780230110922 9780230118508 : 023011850X : |
| CLC: | J90 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire * Envisioning the (W)hole World Behind Things in Sam Mendes's American Beauty * Burning Transmission: Stilling Psychic Space in Gore Verbinski's The Ring * Turning into Another Thing: David Lynch's The Elephant Man * Inscribing the Dream of Otherness at the End of the World * Conclusion: Up with Dead People? |