1st Edition
The Cinema Ideal An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator
By Harriet E. Margolis
Copyright 1988
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late ‘60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book was originally published. Psychoanalysis enables a discussion of the cinema’s role as a social and political force and this book enters a discourse... Read more
Preface 1. Idols of the Theater 2. Cinema and the Psychic Apparatus 3. Perception of the Image 4. The Willing Suspension of Disbelief 5. Participation: Group or Individual 6. Film and Phantasy 7. The Cinema Ideal/ The Ideal Cinema
Biography
Harriet E. Margolis
