num_pages: 144
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows
titlecomplete: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows (Short Cuts)
genres: Film, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Wallflower Press