Out of the Past

Ben Tyrer teaches Film Studies at King's College London, UK. His research interests include film theory, film-philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is co-editor of the collection, Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable: from Culture to the Clinic (Routledge, 2016), and has published work in Studies in French Cinema and Film-Philosophy, as well as several edited collections on psychoanalysis, culture and society. He is also co-coordinator of the Psychoanalysis in Our Time research network, supported by the Nordic Summer University.

“Tyrer’s study is nonetheless one that seeks to break new ground with pioneering arguments. The result is a collection that is simultaneously regressive and progressive, at once looking backward and forward.” (Daniel Clarke, Film-Philosophy, Vol. 24, 2020)

• Introduction: Into the Past/Out of the Past.- PART I: SYMBOLIC.- Chapter 1. Film Noir as Point de Capiton: Retroactive Temporality and Symbolic Structure.- PART II: REAL.- Chapter 2. Film Noir Doesn't Exist: Impossibility, Definition and the Point of Failure.- PART III: IMAGINARY.- Chapter 3. The Boundaries and Meaning of Noir: Suture, Metaphor and the Historical Imaginary.- PART IV: BORROMEAN KNOT.- Chapter 4. The Idea of Noir: Fiction, Signifier, Genre.