Women and Images of Men in Cinema: Gender Construction in La Belle et la Bete by Jean Cocteau

by Andreas Hamburger

Overview

Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception. On the other hand, the movie is embedded in a cultural tradition: Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bete (1946) takes up the classic motif of the animal gro

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367329839
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Beauties and Beasts in Film Psychoanalysis — Women and images of men in cinema — Psychoanalytical film interpretation—possibilities and limitations — Beautiful beasts—motif tradition and film psychoanalysis in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (F 1946) — The Beauties — La Belle, la Bête, et la rose — “You can’t say no to the Beauty and the Beast …”* Or: an ending and no beautiful beast — The Beasts — Once upon a time—Beauty and the Beast—a surrealistic survival attempt in the year 1946? — Coming over to the wild side: women’s yearning for beastly encounters in the course of film history