Sexual Difference in European Cinema The

What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacans theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.

FABIO VIGHI teaches Italian and European Cinema at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Le ragioni dellaltro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001), Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2005), iek Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner) and Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj iek and Consequences (2007, edited with Heiko Feldner).

Introduction	p. 1
The Comfort of Fantasies	p. 15
Sublime Objects: the Antinomies of Masculine Sexuality from Felini to Truffaut	p. 17
Ethics of Drive: Beauty and its Enjoyment from Rohmer to Pasolini	p. 57
Unbearable Freedoms: the Real of Sexual Difference from Rossellini to Fassbinder	p. 96
Variations on Feminine Enjoyment	p. 147
In the Beginning was Enjoyment: the Emergence of Feminine Desire in Bergman and Antonioni	p. 149
About Nothing, with Precision: Femininity Unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni	p. 176
In Film Beyond Film: the Ontological Primacy of Woman	p. 203
Conclusion	p. 237
Notes	p. 242
Bibliography	p. 250
Index	p. 254
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Sexual Difference in European Cinema The Curse of Enjoyment

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