Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.
Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film theory. Historically film scholars have located the gaze on the side of the spectator; however, Todd Mc Gowan positions it within the filmic image, where it has the radical potential to disrupt the spectator’s sense of identity and challenge the foundations of ideology. This book demonstrates several distinct cinematic forms that vary in terms of how the gaze functions within the films. Through a detailed investigation of directors such as Orson Welles, Claire Denis, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, and David Lynch, Mc Gowan explores the political, cultural, and existential ramifications of these differing roles of the gaze.
Spis treści
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From the Imaginary Look to the Real Gaze
Part 1. The Cinema of Fantasy: Exposing the Excess
1. Fantasy and Showing Too Much
2. Theoretical Fantasizing
3. The Politics of Cinematic Fantasy
4. Early Explorations of Fantasy
5. The Coldness of Kubrick
6. Spike Lee’s Fantasmatic Explosions
7. Michael Mann and the Ethics of Excess
8. The Bankruptcy of Fantasy in Fellini
Part 2. The Cinema of Desire: Absence amid the Plenitude of the Image
9. Desire and Not Showing Enough
10. Theoretical Desiring
11. The Politics of Cinematic Desire
12. The Impossible Object of the Nouvelle Vague
13. The Banality of Orson Welles
14. Claire Denis and the Other’s Failure to Enjoy
15. Political Desire in Italian Neorealism
Part 3. The Cinema of Integration: The Marriage of Desire and Fantasy
16. The Intermixing of Desire and Fantasy
17. The Theoretical Opposition
18. The Politics of the Cinema of Integration
19. The Ordinary Cinema of Ron Howard
20. Steven Spielberg’s Search for the Father
21. D. W. Griffith’s Suspense
22. Films That Separate
Part 4. The Cinema of Intersection: Collisions of Desire and Fantasy 23. The Separation of Desire and Fantasy
24. Theorizing the Real
25. The Politics of the Cinema of Intersection
26. The Overlapping Worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky
27. Alain Resnais between the Present and the Past
28. Wim Wenders and the Ethics of Fantasizing
29. The Sexual Relationship with David Lynch
Notes
Index
O autorze
Todd Mc Gowan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment and The Feminine 'No!’: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon, both also published by SUNY Press.
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