1st Edition

Lost Angels Psychoanalysis and Cinema

By Vicky Lebeau Copyright 1995
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

Re-reading Freud's writing on femininity, fantasy and social identification, Lost Angels expands the psychoanalytic framework within which contemporary debates regarding fantasy and spectatorship have been taking place. Vicky Lebeau takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as her starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Daddy's cinema: femininity and mass spectatorship 3. Femininity, fantasy and the collective 4 Rumble Fish : Francis Coppola, Susan Hinton and Narcissus 5. Lost Angels: River's Edge and social spectatorship 6. Afterword `beyond all shadow of doubt' Notes Bibliography

Biography

Vicky Lebeau has published widely in the fields of psychoanalysis and visual culture. She has particular interests in the topics of sexuality, fantasy and representation.

In psychoanalysis, she has particular interests in Freud, Winnicott, Andre Green, Jean Laplanche, Serge Leclaire, Michael Eigen, Joyce McDougall and Christopher Bollas; interests in 19th and 20th century writers and film-makers include George Eliot, Doris Lessing, Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Haneke.