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Author Ruddell, Caroline, author.

Title The besieged ego : doppelgangers and split identity onscreen / Caroline Ruddell
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (145 pages)
Contents Why Psychoanalysis? -- The Ego in Freud and Lacan -- The Monster Within -- Gendering the Double -- Doubled Up: Body Swapping, Multiple Performance and Twins in the Comedy Film
Summary The Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation, or mediation, of identity in film and television through a thorough analysis of doppelgangers and split or fragmentary characters. The prevalence of non-autonomous characters in a wide variety of film and television examples calls into question the very concept of a unified, 'knowable' identity. The form of the double, and cinematic modes and rhetorics used to denote fragmentary identity, is addressed in the book through a detailed analysis of texts drawn from a range of industrial, historical and cultural contexts. The doppelganger or double carries significant cultural meanings about what it means to be 'human' and the experience of identity as a gendered individual. The double also expresses in fictional form our problematic experience of the world as a social, and supposedly whole and autonomous, subject. The Besieged Ego therefore raises important questions about the representation of identity onscreen and concomitant issues regarding autonomy and what it means to be 'human'. Key Features Charts a generic account of the double onscreen Case studies include horror, fantasy, comedy, Japanese and Korean film
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Doubles in motion pictures.
Doppelgängers.
Split self in motion pictures
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Doppelgängers
Doubles in motion pictures
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748692033
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9780748692040
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9780748697052
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