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Author Sabbadini, Andrea

Title Moving Images : Psychoanalytic reflections on film
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (161 pages)
Series New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' series
New library of psychoanalysis. 'Beyond the Couch' series.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A young profession: films on psychoanalysis; Secrets of a Soul (Pabst 1926); Spellbound (Hitchcock 1945); Nineteen Nineteen (Brody 1985); Il Postino (Radford 1994); 2 ... and the oldest one: films on prostitution; Cabiria (Fellini 1956) and Lilya-4-Ever (Moodysson 2002); Belle de Jour (Buñuel 1967); 3 The young ones: films on children; Kes (Loach 1969); The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice 1973); Cría Cuervos (Saura 1976); Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro 2006); Germany Year Zero (Rossellini 1948)
4 ... and slightly older ones: films on adolescentsHeavenly Creatures (Jackson 1994); City of God (Meirelles 2002); Mila from Mars (Sophia 2004); 5 Between eros and thanatos: films on love; A Pornographic Affair (Fonteyne 1999); Amores Perros (Iñárritu 2000); Le Boucher (Chabrol 1970); Matador (Almodóvar 1986); Vertigo (Hitchcock 1958); 6 Watching voyeurs: films on scopophilia; Rear Window (Hitchcock 1954); A Short Film about Love (Kieslowski 1988); Homework (Hermosillo 1990); Peeping Tom (Powell 1960); A last few words; Appendix; Film directors; Filmography
Glossary of psychoanalytic termsReferences; Index
Summary The experience of watching films - entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be - can be enriched by the opportunity to reflect upon them from unconventional perspectives. Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film: Moving Images offers its readers in an accessible language one such viewpoint, informed by Andrea Sabbadini's psychoanalytic insights and therapeutic experience. Using a psychoanalytic interpretative approach, some twenty-five important feature films are discussed as the artistic vehicles of new, unsuspected meanings. The first chapter looks at
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317806134
1317806131