Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 331. . 2015. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1138997811
ISBN 13: 9781138997813
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators.

The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.

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D. N. Rodowick is Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

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