Madness and Cinema

Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and Culture

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Patrick Fuery

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This text offers a radical approach to the issue of what happens when we watch films. By exploring cinema's relationship to meaning and proposing new ways to read cinema through pscyhoanalysis, this book develops the idea that the spectator engages in what has previously been described as an act of madness. By considering some of the key concepts from Freud and Lacan, as well as ideas from Derrida and Foucault, we are shown the common features that cinema and madness share. The film spectator is shown as the psychotic, neurotic and hysteric, as the book examines the ways in which the foundations of culture and meaning are challenged when we become the spectator of a film.

Author Biography:

PATRICK FUERY is Director of Research in the Division of Humanities, Curtin University, Australia. He has published a number of books in the fields of film studies and critical theory.

Release date NZ

September 26th, 2003

Author

Patrick Fuery

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

XII, 177 p.

Imprint

Red Globe Press

Pages

177

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Dimensions

138x216x9

ISBN-13

9780333948262

Product ID

1725755

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