Screen memories : Hollywood cinema on the psychoanalytic couch
Material type: TextNew York, NY Columbia University Press c1993Description: 277p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0231072864
- PN1995 .G675 1993
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1 Reel significations: an anatomy of psychoanalytic film criticism. 2 Cult cinema: Casablanca--if it's so schmaltzy, why am I weeping?. 3 The detective film: The maltese falcon--even paranoids have enemies. 4 War movies: dangerous recuperations--Red Dawn, Rambo, and the new Decaturism. 5 Psycho: The apes at the windows. 6 Reimagining the gargoyle: psychoanalytic notes on Alien and the contemporary "cruel" horror film. 7 Fiction into film--problems of adaptation: improper Bostonians. 8 On the McMovie: less is less at the simplex. 9 Raiders of the lost text: remaking as contested homage in Always. 10 Working girl: leveraged sell-out. 11 Enemies: a love story--awful plausibility
'...delves into the psychological aspects of mainstream American movies....directs his focus on characters, motivations, and conflicts in detective, war, science fiction, and horror movies, as well as cult cinema.'
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