New Developments in Film Theory

by Patrick Fuery

• ISBN13: 9780333985694
• ISBN10: 0333985699
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2017-05-08
• Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

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