Traversing the Fantasy

The Dialectic of Desire/Fantasy and the Ethics of Narrative Cinema

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Sandra Meiri, Odeya Kohen-Raz

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Traversing the Fantasy: The Dialectic of Desire/Fantasy proposes a new and comprehensive model of spectatorship at the heart of which it draws an analogy between the ethics of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the ethics of narrative film. It demonstrates how spectators engage with narrative film, undergoing unconscious processes that generate a shift in the adherence to fantasies that impede assuming responsibility for one's fate and well being. The authors discuss the affinities that the ontology and aesthetics of narrative film share with subjective, unconscious processes, offering new insights into the popular appeal of narrative film, through three film corpora, analyzed at length: body-character-breach films; dreaming-character films; and gender-crossing films. With a range of case studies from the old (Rebecca, Vertigo, Some Like it Hot) to the new (Being John Malkovich, A Fantastic Woman), Sandra Meiri and Odeya Kohen Raz build on psychoanalytic ideas about the cinema and take them in a completely new direction that promises to be the basis for further developments in the field.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-02-06
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt599 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501328732

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Film inom Kultur
Freudiansk psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Sandra Meiri is a senior lecturer and academic supervisor of film studies in the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University of Israel.Odeya Kohen-Raz is a senior lecturer and coordinator of film theory teaching at the Sapir Academic College, Israel, a teaching coordinator in the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University of Israel, and teaches in the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

IntroductionPart I: Body-Character-Breach Films Chapter 1 – Desire, Fantasy, and the Ontology of FilmChapter 2 –Traversing the Fantasy: Body-Character-Breach FilmsPart II: Dreaming-Character FilmsChapter 3 – Dreams in Films and Implicit Reflexivity Chapter 4 – Cinematography, Subjectivity, and GuiltPart III: Gender-Crossing FilmsChapter 5 – This Gender That is Mine: Feminine Enjoyment and Self-CreationChapter 6 – From “Inherent Transgression” to the Body as “Semiotc Chora"AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

Traversing the Fantasy is an epochal engagement with the ethics of cinemagoing. By elaborating on the central role that fantasy has in the cinema, Sandra Meiri and Odeya Kohen-Raz make clear the ethical stakes in play every time we see a film. By taking fantasy as the starting point, they produce an ethical system that permits spectators how a given film asks them to relate to their own desire. The final result of Traversing the Fantasy is a psychoanalytic conception of cinema that allows us to completely reimagine what is at stake when we see a film.