Doubling, distance and identification in the cinema
By: Paul Coates, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Bsingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781137396709
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; Psychological aspects
Description: "The intention of this project is to argue theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. The link between the first two terms (scale and distance) and the latter two (identification and doubling) is implicit in the title, and its unfolding constitutes the project: for instance, the closer one comes, the deeper identification is likely to be, and the greater the likelihood that what is apparently 'there' will impose itself as also 'here', existing both inside and outside the viewing psyche, which becomes double, and whose doubling may either become explicit or remain implicit in the text. Along with its collapsing of interiority/exteriority distinctions, doubling reveals the reversibility and ambiguity of scale, as what is 'there' could just as well have been situated 'here'. The book contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The Double Life of Veronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda, Vertigo and Wings of Desire. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Neither Here Nor There 1. Doubles and the Shadows in Plato's Cave 2. Extensions of the Self 3. Doubling, Distance and Instruments of Peceptions 4. In and Out of the Shadows of Noir 5. Cowboys and Aliens.