Women and Images of Men in Cinema - Gender Construction in La Belle Et La Bete By Jean Cocteau

Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception.

List of contents

Beauties and Beasts in Film Psychoanalysis -- Women and images of men in cinema -- Psychoanalytical film interpretation-possibilities and limitations -- Beautiful beasts-motif tradition and film psychoanalysis in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (F 1946) -- The Beauties -- La Belle, la Bête, et la rose -- "You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast ..."* Or: an ending and no beautiful beast -- The Beasts -- Once upon a time-Beauty and the Beast-a surrealistic survival attempt in the year 1946? -- Coming over to the wild side: women's yearning for beastly encounters in the course of film history

About the author

Andreas Hamburger is a Professor of Psychology at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, and a psychoanalyst who writes on literature, film, and psychoanalysis, among other topics. He is a member of the Munich Work Group on Film and Psychoanalysis.

Summary

Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Hamburger, Andreas (International Psychoanalytic U Hamburger
• Assisted by: Andreas Hamburger (Editor), Hamburger Andreas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367329839
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32983-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Culture and Psychoanalysis