Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire [electronic resource] /
Hausmann, V.author.
Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : cinema, technologies of visibility, and the reanimation of desire -- Envisioning the (w)hole world behind things in Sam Mendes's American beauty -- Burning transmission : stilling psychic space in Gore Verbinski's The ring -- Turning into another thing : David Lynch's The elephant man -- Inscribing the dream of otherness at the end of the world -- Conclusion : up with dead people?.
Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.
Motion pictures and television.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures-History.
Civilization-History.
Screen Studies.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Film History.
Cultural History.