Embodied Encounters

Taylor & Francis

Embodied EncountersNew approaches to psychoanalysis and cinema\nAuthor(s): Agnieszka Piotrowska\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138795242, 978-1138795242\nSynopsis\nWhat is the role of the unconscious in our visceral approaches to cinema?\n\nEmbodied Encounters offers a unique collection of essays written by leading thinkers and writers in film studies, with a guiding principle that embodied and material existence can, and perhaps ought to, also allow for the unconscious. The contributors embrace work which has brought the body back into film theory and question why psychoanalysis has been excluded from more recent interrogations.\n\nThe chapters included here engage with Jung and Freud, Lacan and Bion, and Klein and Winnicott in their interrogations of contemporary cinema and the moving image. In three parts the book presents examinations of both classic and contemporary films including Black Swan, Zero Dark Th.