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Informationen zum Autor Glen O. Gabbard MD is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic at Baylor College of Medecine in Houston, Texas. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston. He is further a Joint Editor-In-Chief of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' between 2001 and 2007. Klappentext In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing range of film material. From Wild Strawberries and Vertigo to Titanic and Being John Malkovich, this intelligent and enjoyable collection succeedes in combining clarity and accessibility with a deeply informed scholarship. Zusammenfassung This volume contains a collection of outstanding examples of psychoanalytic film criticism, applying different theoretical orientations, drawn from the first four years of the film review section in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis during author's tenure as film review editor. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction -- The End of Time: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries -- Hitchcock's Vertigo: The Collapse of a Rescue Fantasy -- Neil Jordan's The Crying Game -- Hidden in the Imagery: An Unconscious Scene in The Conformist -- 'Ah Doctor, is there Nothin' I Can Take?': A Review of Reservoir Dogs -- Arthur Penn's Night Moves: A Film that Interprets Us -- Lone Star: Signs, Borders and Thresholds -- Letters, Words and Metaphors: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Michael Radford's Il Postino -- Truffaut and the Failure of Introjection -- I Have Not Spoken: Silence in The Piano -- Over-Exposure: Terry Zwigoff's Crumb -- Narrating Desire and Desiring Narration: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The English Patient -- The Remains of the Day -- Deconstructing Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwood's Undoing of the Hollywood Myth of Screen Masculinity in Play 'Misty' For Me -- The Thing from Inner Space: Titanic and Deep Impact -- Chinatown -- Saving Private Ryan's Surplus Repression -- M (1931) -- Remembering and Repeating in Eve's Bayou -- Watching Voyeurs: Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) -- Egoyan's Exotica: Where does the Real Horror Reside? -- The Real Thing? Some Thoughts on Boys Don't Cry -- Fifteen Minutes of Fame Revisited: Being John Malkovich -- The Sixth Sense...
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Introduction -- The End of Time: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries -- Hitchcock's Vertigo: The Collapse of a Rescue Fantasy -- Neil Jordan's The Crying Game -- Hidden in the Imagery: An Unconscious Scene in The Conformist -- 'Ah Doctor, is there Nothin' I Can Take?': A Review of Reservoir Dogs -- Arthur Penn's Night Moves: A Film that Interprets Us -- Lone Star: Signs, Borders and Thresholds -- Letters, Words and Metaphors: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Michael Radford's Il Postino -- Truffaut and the Failure of Introjection -- I Have Not Spoken: Silence in The Piano -- Over-Exposure: Terry Zwigoff's Crumb -- Narrating Desire and Desiring Narration: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The English Patient -- The Remains of the Day -- Deconstructing Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwood's Undoing of the Hollywood Myth of Screen Masculinity in Play 'Misty' For Me -- The Thing from Inner Space: Titanic and Deep Impact -- Chinatown -- Saving Private Ryan's Surplus Repression -- M (1931) -- Remembering and Repeating in Eve's Bayou -- Watching Voyeurs: Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) -- Egoyan's Exotica: Where does the Real Horror Reside? -- The Real Thing? Some Thoughts on Boys Don't Cry -- Fifteen Minutes of Fame Revisited: Being John Malkovich -- The Sixth Sense
