The Couch and the Silver Screen

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ISBN: 9781583919521 | 158391952X
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Copyright: 7/24/2003

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This book is a diverse collection of contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analyzed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists, psychoanalysts with a specific expertise in the interpretation of films, as well as the filmmakers themselves.

Contributors

Foreword

LAURA MULVEY

Acknowledgements

xix

Introduction

(16)

ANDREA SABBADINI

Set and stage

(36)

1 The inner and outer worlds of the filmmaker's temporary social structure

(16)

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI, FIONA SHAW AND CHRIS MAWSON

2 One in the Eye from Sam: Samuel Beckett's Film (1964) and his contribution to our vision in theatre, cinema and psychoanalysis

(18)

IAN CHRISTIE, JULIET STEVENSON AND HELEN TAYLOR ROBINSON

Working through trauma

(64)

3 Sons and fathers: a room of their own - Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room (2001)

(18)

NANNI MORETTI, PAOLA GOLINELLI, STEFANO BOLOGNINI AND ANDREA SABBADINI

4 Witness and persecution in two short films: Miguel Sapochnik's The Dreamer (2001) and Lindy Heymann's Kissing Buba (2001)

(9)

JED SEKOFF

5 A post-postmodern Walkyrie: psychoanalytic considerations on Tom Tykwer's Run, Lola, Run (1998)

(12)

ANNEGRET MAHLER-BUNGERS

6 Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (1998): an attempt to avoid madness through denunciation

(6)

LILIANA PEDRÓN DE MARTÍN

7 István Szabó's Sunshine (1999): the cinematic representation of historical and familial trauma

100

(17)

DIANA DIAMOND

Horror perspectives

117

(40)

8 Notes on the relevance of psychoanalytic theory to Euro-horror cinema

119

(9)

STEVEN JAY SCHNEIDER

9 Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985): a psychoanalytic perspective on the 'horror film' genre and adolescent development

128

(11)

DONALD CAMPBELL

10 Freedom through re-introjection: a Kleinfan perspective on Dominik Moll's Harry: He's Here to Help (2000)

139

(6)

CANDY AUBRY

11 Cinema, horror and the abominations of hell: Carl-Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1931) and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981)

145

(12)

MICHAEL GRANT

Documenting internal worlds

157

(89)

12 Narratives and documentaries: an encounter with Michael Apted and his films

159

(22)

MICHAEL APTED AND HELEN TAYLOR ROBINSON

13 The cinematic dream-work of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957)

181

(23)

ELIZABETH COWIE

14 Film as an abreaction of totalitarianism: Vinko Brešan's Marshal Tito's Spirit (1999)

204

(9)

LJILJANA FILIPOVIC

15 Documentary directors and their protagonists: a transferential / countertransferential relationship? Timna Rosenheimer's Fortuna (2000) and Michal Aviad's Ever Shot Anyone? (1995)

213

(19)

EMANUEL BERMAN, TIMNA ROSENHEIMER AND MICHAL AVIAD

16 Filming psychoanalysis: feature or documentary? Two contributions

232

(14)

HUGH BRODY AND MICHAEL BREARLEY

Films index

246

(3)

General index

249

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