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1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) |
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture |
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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| Contents |
Fantasy and showing too much -- Theoretical fantasizing -- The politics of cinematic fantasy -- Early explorations of fantasy -- The coldness of Kubrick -- Spike Lee's fantasmatic explostions -- Michael Mann and the ethics of excess -- The bankruptcy of fantasy in Fellini -- Desire and not showing enough -- Theoretical desiring -- The politics of cinematic desire -- The impossible object of the Nouvelle Vague -- The banality of Orson Welles -- Claire Denis and the other's failure to enjoy -- Political desire in Italian neorealism -- The intermixing of desire and fantasy -- The theoretical opposition -- The politics of the cinema of integration -- The ordinary cinema of Ron Howard -- Steven Spielberg's search for the father -- D.W. Griffith's suspense -- Films that separate -- The separation of desire and fantasy -- Theorizing the real -- The politics of the cinema of intersection -- The overlapping worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky -- Alain Resnais between the present and the past -- Wim Wnders and the ethics of fantasizing -- The sexual relationship with David Lynch |
| Summary |
The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film theory. Historically film scholars have located the gaze on the side of the spectator; however, Todd McGowan positions it within the filmic image, where it has the radical potential to disrupt the spectator's sense of identity and challenge the foundations of ideology. This book demonstrates several distinct cinematic forms that vary in terms of how the gaze functions within the films. Through a detailed investigation of directors such as Orson Welles, Claire Denis, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, and David Lynch, McGowan explores the political, cultural, and existential ramifications of these differing roles of the gaze |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-245) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Lacan, Jacques 1901-1981 gnd |
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Bibel Philemonbrief gnd |
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Film criticism.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Film criticism
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Filmtheorie
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Lacan, Jacques -- Film.
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Filmtheorie -- Geschichte.
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Film -- Ästhetik -- Geschichte.
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Film -- Philosophie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429471435 |
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1429471433 |
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0791470393 |
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9780791470398 |
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9780791480366 |
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0791480364 |
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