The difficulty of difference psychoanalysis, sexual difference & film theory
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Routledge library editions. Cinema.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798189406719 |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | "First published in 1991"--T.p. verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138997813 9781315855721 9781317928546 9781317928553 |
