Cinema, technologies of visibility, and the reanimation of desire
Hausmann, Vincent J.
Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as 'The Ring, American Beauty',and 'The Elephant Man', Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language. VINCENT J. HAUSMANN is an Associate Professor of English at Furman University, South Carolina, USA. INDICE: Introduction: Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire - Envisioning the (W)hole World Behind Things in Sam Mendes's American Beauty - Burning Transmission: Stilling Psychic Space in Gore Verbinski's The Ring - Turning into Another Thing: David Lynch's The Elephant Man - Inscribing the Dream of Otherness at the End of the World - Conclusion: Up withDead People?
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11092-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 244
- Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido