Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught since 1993. His research interests include Hollywood cinema, Italian cinema, masculinity, Freudian psychoanalysis and Shakespeare adaptation. He is the author of Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob (Pluto and Indiana University Press, 2004) and has published chapters and articles on Martin Scorsese, Luchino Visconti, Shakespeare in film and film and the Cold War.

“A fascinating and thought provoking reading of Jeremy Irons ... this book will make an excellent contribution to the way we read actors. The approach is innovative, imaginative, and full of delicate argument.”  ·  Sean Redmond, Victoria University of Wellington

• IntroductionChapter 1. Imogen, Narcissism and the Intolerable IdeaChapter 2. Brideshead Revisited: Charles Ryder Drowning in HoneyChapter 3. The French Lieutenant's Woman: Charles Smithson; Beyond the Pale and Mike Beyond the RunChapter 4. Swann in Love: Exceptional FeelingsChapter 5. Dead Ringers: The Flight from Strange and Unloved WomenChapter 6. M. Butterfly: René Gallimard and the Flair for MelodramaChapter 7. Lolita: The Two Basic Laws of TotemismBibliographyFilmographyNotesIndex

Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught since 1993. His research interests include Hollywood cinema, Italian cinema, masculinity, Freudian psychoanalysis and Shakespeare adaptation. He is the author of Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob (Pluto and Indiana University Press, 2004) and has published chapters and articles on Martin Scorsese, Luchino Visconti, Shakespeare in film and film and the Cold War.

“A fascinating and thought provoking reading of Jeremy Irons ... this book will make an excellent contribution to the way we read actors. The approach is innovative, imaginative, and full of delicate argument.”  ·  Sean Redmond, Victoria University of Wellington

• IntroductionChapter 1. Imogen, Narcissism and the Intolerable IdeaChapter 2. Brideshead Revisited: Charles Ryder Drowning in HoneyChapter 3. The French Lieutenant's Woman: Charles Smithson; Beyond the Pale and Mike Beyond the RunChapter 4. Swann in Love: Exceptional FeelingsChapter 5. Dead Ringers: The Flight from Strange and Unloved WomenChapter 6. M. Butterfly: René Gallimard and the Flair for MelodramaChapter 7. Lolita: The Two Basic Laws of TotemismBibliographyFilmographyNotesIndex

Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught since 1993. His research interests include Hollywood cinema, Italian cinema, masculinity, Freudian psychoanalysis and Shakespeare adaptation. He is the author of Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob (Pluto and Indiana University Press, 2004) and has published chapters and articles on Martin Scorsese, Luchino Visconti, Shakespeare in film and film and the Cold War.

“A fascinating and thought provoking reading of Jeremy Irons ... this book will make an excellent contribution to the way we read actors. The approach is innovative, imaginative, and full of delicate argument.”  ·  Sean Redmond, Victoria University of Wellington

• IntroductionChapter 1. Imogen, Narcissism and the Intolerable IdeaChapter 2. Brideshead Revisited: Charles Ryder Drowning in HoneyChapter 3. The French Lieutenant's Woman: Charles Smithson; Beyond the Pale and Mike Beyond the RunChapter 4. Swann in Love: Exceptional FeelingsChapter 5. Dead Ringers: The Flight from Strange and Unloved WomenChapter 6. M. Butterfly: René Gallimard and the Flair for MelodramaChapter 7. Lolita: The Two Basic Laws of TotemismBibliographyFilmographyNotesIndex