Psychoanalyzing Cinema

Frida BeckmanHanjo Berressemjan jagodzinski Kiarina Kordela Sheila KunkleMeera LeeTodd McGowan Patricia Pisters Bob Samuels Jason Wallin Emanuelle Wessels

"This impressive collection of essays explores the critical insights of three major theorists of cinema, psychoanalysis, and philosophy ... Nine essays by leading scholars ... constitute the collection, with an excellent introduction by editor jagodzinski. The rich essays cover the terrain of cinematic studies from both the psychoanalytic and schizoanalytic perspectives, exploring the intersections between cinema and philosophy in such areas as ethics, identity politics, love, trauma, and perception. Particularly noteworthy is the essay by Todd McGowan on Deleuze and Jean-Luc Godard's films. This volume will be very useful to students and film studies scholars, as well as those interested in philosophy and psychoanalysis and the rich possibilities opened up by their conceptual intersections. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." - CHOICE "This is a wonderfully innovative and insightful collection, containing work from scholars of the highest calibre exploring the intersections between cinema, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Psychoanalyzing Cinema demonstrates the rarely discussed connections between Lacan, Deleuze, and i ek, producing startling film-philosophical insights into the nature of our existence - in a universe conceived of as light or metacinema; in relation to time, trauma and national identity; ethics; love; perception; ideology; politics; and zombie apocalypse." - David Martin-Jones, senior lecturer in Film Studies, director of the Centre for Film Studies, University of St. Andrews, and author of Deleuze and World Cinemas "The relationship between psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis remains one of the most tantalizing, and least resolved, questions in contemporary film theory. With this collection, which brings together notable scholars from both sides of the equation, editor Jan Jagodzinski has provided arguably the first rigorous reckoning with the cinematic conjunction of Lacan and Deleuze." - Gregory Flaxman, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Introduction: Lacanian/Deleuzian;  J.Jagodzinski PART I: TOPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS  Signifier, Signified vs. Actual, Virtual: Lacan, Deleuze and the Projective Screen; H.Bressemmen   On the Possibilities of Political Art: How Zizek Misreads Deleuze and Lacan; R.Samuels   Hitchcock's Fantasy: Real or Reality?; P.Pisters  PART II: CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS  Television's Supernatural: Desire and Production, Immanence and Death in Cinema's Spectral Subjectivities; G.Gorman Vicissitudes of the Father: Power and Pleasure in the Films of P.T. Anderson; P.S.Eisenstein   Symbolic Discontinuities in the Coen Brothers; K.D.Cho   PART III: AFFECTIVE ENCOUNTERS  Affective Men; F.Colman   'What's Love Got to Do with Narcissism?: Kim, Ki-duck's Time (Shi-gan)'; M.Lee  Crazy Love; S.Kunkle   PART IV: ENCOUNTERS OF THE REAL The Real: Lynch, Lacan, Deleuze and Functions of the Uncanny; F.Beckman Tearing a Real image: Deleuze's Subversion of Cinematic Sense and the Sense of Lacan's Subversion; F.Vighi   Occasioning the Real: Lacan, Deleuze, and Cinematic Structuring of Sense; E.Wessels   PART V: POLITICAL AND PRODUCTIVE ENCOUNTERS Dynamic Biopolitics and Biocinema (Marx, Deleuze, Lacan); A.K.Kordela   Godard between Psychoanalysis and Its Enemies; T.McGowan   'Who will Survive and What will be Left of Them?': Violence, Sensation, and Living Death in Horror Film; J.Wallin