Madness and Cinema: Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and Culture

by Patrick Fuery

Book Overview

Madness and Cinema 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 psychoanalysis, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333948262
• ISBN13: 9780333948262
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.0"