Drama Trauma

Timothy Murray is Professor of English at Cornell University. His most recent publications include Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas (Routledge 1993) and Mimesis, Masochism and Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (1997).

' ... an intelligent, finely-argued, and always interesting book ... Murray provides a bravura performance of his own.' - Film-Philosophy

• List of Figures, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, Part One: Sounding Silence in Shakespeare, 2. Getting Stoned: Psychoanalysis and the Epistemology of Tragedy in Shakespeare, 3. Othello, An Index and Obscure Prologue to the History of Foul Generic Thought, 4. 'Misshapen Chaos of Well-Seeming Forms': Specters of Jointure in Romeo and Juliet, Part Two: Writing Women's Vision, 5. Patriarchal Panopticism, or the Enigma of a Woman's Smile: Getting Out in Theory, 6. The Play of Letters: Writing and Possession in Chucky's Hunch, Part Three: Color Adjustments, 7. Differa(n)ce: Screening the Camera's Eye in African-American Drama, 8. In Exile at Home: Tornado Breath and Unrighteous Fantasy in Robbie McCauley's Indian Blood, Part Four: Televisual Fear, 9. Camera Obsura Ideologica: From Vermeer to Video in All's Well That Ends Well, 10. The Contrast Hurts: Censoring the Ladies Liberty in Performance, 11. Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux, Bibliography.