Madness and Cinema Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and Culture

by Fuery, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780333948262
• ISBN10: 0333948262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-12
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

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 that cinema and madness share. The film spectator is shown as the psychotic, neurotic and hysteric, as the book examines the ways in which the foundations of culture and meaning are challenged when we become the spectator of a film.

Author Biography

Patrick Fuery is Director of Research in the Division of Humanities, Curtin University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Madness and Cinematisation

Representing the Impossible

The Neurotic Spectator Who Eroticises

The Psychotic Spectator Who Transgresses

The Hysterical Spectator Against the Good

The Limits of Knowledge

Bibliography