New Developments in Film Theory

by Fuery, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780312236182
• ISBN10: 0312236182
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-08
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

New Developments in Film Theory investigates how film studies have been influenced by major theoretical advances in postmodernism and post-structuralism while revealing how the study of film has affected those critical movements. Covering topics such as love, terror, the body, and passion, and theories such as feminism, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and semiotics, the author provides new and alternative methods for analyzing film.

Author Biography

Patrick Fuery is Reader in Film and Critical Theory at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(5)
The Gaze: Masochism, Identification and Phantasy in the Spectator	6	(18)
On the Gaze	6	(2)
Masochism	8	(5)
Identification	13	(3)
Phantasy	16	(4)
The Punctum	20	(4)
Dangerous Supplements and the Envy of the Gaze	24	(22)
The Imaginary and the Drive	25	(6)
The Schema of the Inverted Bouquet	31	(4)
Cinematic Excess and the Differance of Cinema	35	(3)
Dangerous Supplements and Cinema	38	(8)
Representing the supplement	39	(4)
The filmic supplement	43	(3)
The Shattering Pluralism: Film and Its Discourses	46	(25)
Semiotics and Discourse	47	(2)
Intertextuality	49	(5)
Structural reference	49	(2)
Thematic reference	51	(1)
Synecdochic structures	52	(1)
Mosaic formations	53	(1)
The Shattering Pluralism of Film	54	(7)
Is there a filmic semiotique?	56	(4)
What constitutes film's thetic boundaries?	60	(1)
Cinematic Power/Knowledge	61	(10)
Flesh into Body into Subject: The Corporeality of the Filmic Discourse	71	(21)
Desultory Bodies	71	(1)
Lacanomy and The Extimate	72	(3)
Economic drives	74	(1)
Lacanian libidinal economy	74	(1)
Cinematic Libidinal Economy	75	(6)
Skin	77	(2)
Lips	79	(1)
The tongue	80	(1)
Fluids	80	(1)
The Mise-en-Scene of Flesh: The Cinematised Body	81	(6)
The body of the condemned as spectacle	82	(5)
The Perversions of the Cinematic Body	87	(5)
The Ideology of Love: Film and Culture	92	(17)
Cinema and Its Discontents	92	(2)
On Love	94	(15)
The amatory drive	94	(2)
The kiss	96	(5)
True love/breathless love	101	(8)
The Carnivalesque: Film and Social Order	109	(28)
Film and Constructions of Social Order	109	(6)
Dialogism and Social Inversion	115	(8)
The Reality Effect	123	(5)
The Disruptive Dispositif	128	(9)
Film and Meaning	137	(21)
Towards a Phenomenology of Cinema	137	(10)
The eidos of revenge	139	(5)
The appresentation of terror; the lacunae of the orgasm	144	(3)
Cinematic Epistemes and the Dispositif	147	(5)
The Cinematic Point du Capiton	152	(1)
The Parergonal Logic of the Cinematic Frame	152	(6)
Seduction: Gender, Genre and Power	158	(17)
Signs of Seduction and the Seductive Sign	159	(5)
The first scene of seduction -- power/knowledge	161	(3)
Seduction and Genre	164	(2)
The Scene of Seduction: The Urphantasie of Cinema	166	(4)
The second scene of seduction -- freedom and phantasy	166	(4)
The Seduction of Light	170	(2)
The third scene of seduction -- obsession	170	(2)
The fourth scene of seduction -- subjectivity	172	(1)
The Seduction of the Dark	172	(3)
The fifth scene of seduction -- betrayal and revelation	173	(2)
Notes and References	175	(7)
Glossary	182	(5)
Filmography and Synopsis	187	(16)
Bibliography	203	(4)
Index	207