Sexual Difference in European Cinema

The Curse of Enjoyment

F. Vighi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2009
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-54925-8 (ISBN)

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What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's 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 dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001), Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2005), Žižek Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner) and Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (2007, edited with Heiko Feldner).

Introduction PART I: THE COMFORT OF FANTASIES Sublime Objects: The Antinomies of Masculine Sexuality from Fellini to Truffaut Ethics of Drive: On Beauty and its Enjoyment from Rohmer to Pasolini Unbearable Freedoms: The Real of Sexual Difference from Rossellini to Fassbinder PART II: VARIATIONS ON FEMININE ENJOYMENT In the Beginning was Enjoyment: The Emergence of Feminine Desire in Bergman and Antonioni About Nothing, with Precision: Femininity Unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni In Film Beyond Film: On the Ontological Primacy of Woman Conclusion Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.2009
Zusatzinfo	V, 258 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-230-54925-X / 023054925X
ISBN-13	978-0-230-54925-8 / 9780230549258
Zustand	Neuware