Psychoanalysis and Film by Glen O. Gabbard - 9781855752757

Taylor & Francis

This volume contains a collection of outstanding examples of psychoanalytic film criticism, applying different theoretical orientations, drawn from the first four years of the film review section in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis during author's tenure as film review editor.\n > Introduction -- The End of Time: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Ingmar Bergman\u2019s Wild Strawberries -- Hitchcock\u2019s Vertigo: The Collapse of a Rescue Fantasy -- Neil Jordan\u2019s The Crying Game -- Hidden in the Imagery: An Unconscious Scene in The Conformist -- \u2018Ah Doctor, is there Nothin\u2019 I Can Take?\u2019: A Review of Reservoir Dogs -- Arthur Penn\u2019s Night Moves: A Film that Interprets Us -- Lone Star: Signs, Borders and Thresholds -- Letters, Words and Metaphors: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Michael Radford\u2019s Il Postino -- Truffaut and the Failure of Introjection -- I Have Not Spoken: Silence in The Piano -- Over-Exposure: Terry Zwigoff\u2019s Crumb -- Narratinge