Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows (Short Cuts)

Lebeau, Vicky

ISBN 10: 1903364191 / ISBN 13: 9781903364192

Published by Wallflower Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows (Short Cuts)
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903364191
• ISBN 13: 9781903364192
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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