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9780230549258

Sexual Difference in European Cinema The Curse of Enjoyment

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    9780230549258

  • ISBN10:

    023054925X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-03-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacans theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.

Author Biography

FABIO VIGHI teaches Italian and European Cinema at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Le ragioni dellaltro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001), Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2005), iek Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner) and Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj iek and Consequences (2007, edited with Heiko Feldner).

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
The Comfort of Fantasiesp. 15
Sublime Objects: the Antinomies of Masculine Sexuality from Felini to Truffautp. 17
Ethics of Drive: Beauty and its Enjoyment from Rohmer to Pasolinip. 57
Unbearable Freedoms: the Real of Sexual Difference from Rossellini to Fassbinderp. 96
Variations on Feminine Enjoymentp. 147
In the Beginning was Enjoyment: the Emergence of Feminine Desire in Bergman and Antonionip. 149
About Nothing, with Precision: Femininity Unbound from Ophuls to Antonionip. 176
In Film Beyond Film: the Ontological Primacy of Womanp. 203
Conclusionp. 237
Notesp. 242
Bibliographyp. 250
Indexp. 254
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