Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows

by Vicky Lebeau

Overview

Lebeau examines the long and uneven history of developments in modern art, science, and technology that brought pychoanalysis and the cinema together towards the end of the nineteenth century. She explores the subsequent encounters between the two: the seductions of psychoanalysis and cinema as converging, though distinct, ways of talking about dream and desire, image and illusion, shock, and sexuality. Beginning with Freud's encounter with the spectacle of hysteria on display in fin-de-siècle Paris, this study offers a detailed reading of the texts and concepts which generated the field of psychoanalytic film theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903364192
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/06/2002
Series:	Short Cuts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Vicky Lebeau is senior lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, UK. She is author of Lost Angels.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. From Charcot to Freud: The Origins of Psychoanalysis
2. Through the Looking-Glass: Mirror/Dream/Screen
3. A Brief Interlude: Screening Freud
4. Typical Dreams
5. The Woman in Question
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index