1st Edition
Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis
By Peter Verstraten
Copyright 2021
482 Pages
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Routledge
482 Pages
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Routledge
482 Pages
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Routledge
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Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis is a sequel to Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (AUP, 2016), but the two studies can be read separately. Because of the sheer variety of Fons Rademakers’ oeuvre, which spans ‘art’ cinema and cult, genre film and historical epics, each chapter will start with one of his titles to introduce a key concept from... Read more
PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER ONE: SPITTING IMAGES, BLIND SPOTS AND DARK MIRRORS, CHAPTER TWO: IN THE NAME OF FATHERS, OVERBEARING, FLYING OR OTHERWISE, CHAPTER THREE: THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, CHAPTER FOUR: FROM RABBLE, RABBLE TO HEROES, CHAPTER FIVE: PARANOIA, PSYCHOSIS, THE HORRIFIC-FANTASTIC, CHAPTER SIX: PASSAGES ÀL'ACTE, CHAPTER SEVEN: FROM HISTORICAL DISCOMFORT TO HISTORICAL TRAUMA, CHAPTER EIGHT: APHANISIS, CHAPTER NINE: HYSTERIA, NEUROSIS, PERVERSION, EPILOGUE, Bibliography, Photo Credits, Index of Concepts, Index of Films, Index of Names
Biography
Peter Verstraten is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University. His publications include Film Narratology (2009) and Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (2016). Together with directors of photography Richard van Oosterhout and Maarten van Rossem, he co-edited Shooting Time (2012), a volume on cinematography. He is a regular contributor to Senses of Cinema.
