In this volume, an international group of leading scholars revisits Rudolf Arnheim' s legacy for film and media studies. The contributors bring Arnheim' s later work on the visual arts to bear on film and media, while also reassessing the implications of his film theory to help …
Introduces students to the key topics in religion and film and to investigate the ways in which the subject of religion and film is developing for more experienced scholars. This book analyses the history of the interaction of religion and film, through periods of censorship as …
"This book provides a critical reappraisal of Barbara Creed's ground-breaking work of feminist psychoanalytic film scholarship, The Monstrous-Feminine, which was first published in 1993. The Monstrous-Feminine married psychoanalytic thinking with film analysis in radically new w…
"This book provides a critical reappraisal of Barbara Creed's ground-breaking work of feminist psychoanalytic film scholarship, The Monstrous-Feminine, which was first published in 1993. The Monstrous-Feminine married psychoanalytic thinking with film analysis in radically new w…
"The Couch and the Silver Screen" is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists a…
A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a stron…
The Guattari effect
"Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman presents a contemporary Freudian-Lacanian assessment of this classic director. This collection is the first to bring together this unique psychological perspective on Bergman's work. While Bergman and his films have bee…