Theorizing Desire - From Freud to Feminism to Film

Informationen zum Autor KRISTYN GORTON is Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film& Television at York University, UK. She is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Portrayal of Desire in Twentieth-Century Fiction: A Feminist Critique (2007) and has published articles in Studies in European Cinema , Feminist Theory  and The Journal of British Cinema and Television . Klappentext What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and film, it considers ways in which the concept is theorized and presented on screen. Zusammenfassung What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and film, it considers ways in which the concept is theorized and presented on screen. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Theorising Desire Hysterical Desire Gaze and Melodrama Shame and Desire Desire and Melancholia Conclusion: Desire and Embodiment Bibliography Notes Index

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Theorising Desire Hysterical Desire Gaze and Melodrama Shame and Desire Desire and Melancholia Conclusion: Desire and Embodiment Bibliography Notes Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: K Gorton, K. Gorton, Kaitlyn Gorton
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349542161
• ISBN: 978-1-349-54216-1
• Seiten: 192
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Allgemeines, Lexika; B, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Performing Arts, Communication, Film History, Media Research, Gender studies, gender groups, Media Sociology, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television