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Beteiligte: Schneider, Steven Jay
veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
©2004.
Teil von: Cambridge Studies in Film Series
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Umfang: 1 online resource (319 pages)
ISBN: 9780511211638
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: Cambridge Studies in Film Series
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Print version:: Schneider, Steven Jay, Horror Film and Psychoanalysis, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2004
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Inhaltsangabe

This volume explores the subject of psychoanalysis and film in a series of essays that debate its legitimacy, utility and validity as applied to the horror genre.

Cover
Half-title
Series-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: "What Lies Beneath?"
Introduction: Psychoanalysis in/and/of the Horror Film
THE MYTH OF META-THEORY
PSYCHOANALYTIC (HORROR FILM) THEORY AT A MINIMUM
PSYCHOANALYTIC SUPPLEMENTATION
NOTES
PART ONE THE QUESTION OF HORROR-PLEASURE
1 "What's the Matter with Melanie?": Reflections on the Merits of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Modern Horror Cinema
Nevertheless?
VICIOUS CIRCLES
UNIVERSALIZING TENDENCIES
ANXIOUS VIEWERS
NOTES
2 A Fun Night Out: Horror and Other Pleasures of the Cinema
GENERAL OBJECTIONS TO PSYCHOANALYSIS
OBJECTIONS TO PSYCHOANALYTIC ACCOUNTS OF (HORROR) FILM SPECTATORSHIP
Prince
Crane
Tudor
Carroll
Gaut
CONCLUSION
NOTES
3 Excerpt from "Why Horror? The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre" with a New Afterword by the Author
THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED
THE UNCONSCIOUS OF IDEOLOGY
AFTERWORD (MAY 2001)
4 Philosophical Problems Concerning the Concept of Pleasure in Psychoanalytical Theories of (the Horror) Film
I
II
III
NOTES
PART TWO THEORIZING THE UNCANNY
5 Explaining the Uncanny in The Double Life of V´eronique
FREUD AND THE UNCANNY
DOUBLING AND THE PSYCHOANALYTIC UNCANNY
REFLEXIVITY
THE UNCANNY AND THE SUBLIME
PLAYS UPON GENDER
CONCLUSION
NOTES
6 Manifestations of the Literary Double in Modern Horror Cinema
THEORIZING THE DOUBLE
MAPPING THE DOUBLE
DEFENDING THE DOUBLE
NOTES
7 Heimlich Maneuvres: On A Certain Tendency of Horror and Speculative Cinema
EXAMPLES
Classic Universal Studios Monsters
The Godzilla Canon
Jaws of the James Bond Cycle
Terminators
Animated Heimlich Maneuvres
Heimlich Maneuvres in Myth, Folklore, and Literature
HUMOR AND THE HEIMLICH MANEUVRE.
Humor Related to Unheimlich Monsters
Humor Related to Heimlich Monsters
THE HEIMLICH MONSTER AS RECUPERATED CHILD, ADOLESCENT, PARENT . . . AND DIVINITY
IN SUM
NOTES
8 "It was a dark and stormy night . . .": Horror Films and the Problem of Irony
I
II
III
NOTES
PART THREE REPRESENTING PSYCHOANALYSIS
9 What Does Dr. Judd Want? Transformation, Transference, and Divided Selves in Cat People
I
II
III
IV
NOTES
10 "Ultimate Formlessness": Cinema, Horror, and the Limits of Meaning
I
II
III
11 Freud's Worst Nightmare: Dining with Dr. Hannibal Lecter
FREUD, FILM, AND MODERNITY
THE MODERN SELF
SCREEN MEMORIES
SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE HORROR FILM
THE OPTICAL UNCONSCIOUS
HANNIBAL LECTER: THE CANNIBAL MONSTER
PART FOUR NEW DIRECTIONS
12 Doing Things with Theory: From Freud's Worst Nightmare to (Disciplinary) Dreams of Horror's Cultural Value
"FRACTAL DISTINCTIONS"
THE TIMELESS TERRORS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE TIMELY SPIRITS OF SOCIOLOGY
CONCLUSION
NOTES
13 The Darker Side of Genius: The (Horror) Auteur Meets Freud's Theory
"A CERTAIN TENDENCY" AND THE MURDEROUS GAZE: HORROR AND THE AUTEUR
"AUTEUR DESIRE" AND THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF GENIUS
FILM THEORY'S WORST NIGHTMARE: THE HORROR AUTEUR FILM
Shadow of the Vampire: Post-Lacanian Snuff
Gods and Monsters and Classical Auteurism
Ed Wood, Identity Politics, and the Anti-Auteur
Psychology Today: American Movie, Trauma Culture, and the Self-Made Auteur
NOTES
14 Violence and Psychophysiology in Horror Cinema
I
II
III
IV
V
NOTES
Afterword: Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film
NOTES
About the Contributors
Bibliography
Index.