The Cinema of the Real

A significant intervention into Lacanian film studies, this book sets forth a new theory of the psychoanalytic Real in cinema. In psychoanalysis, the Real ruptures the Symbolic that organizes law, ideology, and other systems of belief, revealing fissures in this underlying order. The Cinema of the Real explores how transnational cinema and especially South Korean cinema facilitate an encounter with the Real, enabling the emergence of a new political subject. Paying close attention to form, Hyon Joo Yoo reveals the existence of an "emancipatory drive" in films by Jang Hun, Park Chan-wook, Lee Chang-dong, Jia Zhangke, Michael Haneke, Claire Denis, and Bong Joon-ho, among others. Their work in effect provides viewers with a picture of how it looks and feels to be on a trajectory in which the subject and her world can change. Far from being a passive consumer of images, Yoo's spectator enters the space of the Real. Theoretically rigorous and inventive, The Cinema of the Real offers new, transnationally attuned tools for conceptualizing the body, affect, femininity, and spectatorship, as well as fresh readings of both classic and contemporary films.

About the author

Hyon Joo Yoo is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema and the editor of South Korean Film, a three-volume reference collection.

Product details

• Authors: Hyon Joo Yoo, Yoo Hyon Joo
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9798855800159
• ISBN: 979-8-8558-0015-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Series: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Film Theory & Criticism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Film history, theory or criticism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Feminine Cinema, psychoanalytic theory, Real Cinema