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Screen memories : Hollywood cinema on the psychoanalytic couch

By: Material type: TextTextNew York, NY Columbia University Press c1993Description: 277p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0231072864
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .G675 1993
Contents:
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
Abstract: '...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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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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