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Out of the Past: Lacan and Film Noir
Ben Tyrer
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Hardback. Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just beginning. The chapters engage with Lacanian psychoanalysis to perform a meta-critical analysis of the writing on noir in the last seven decades and to present an original theory of criticism and historiography for the cinema. The book is also an act of mourning; for a lost past of the cinema, for a longstanding critical tradition and for film ... Read more
This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just beginning. The chapters engage with Lacanian psychoanalysis to perform a meta-critical analysis of the writing on noir in the last seven decades and to present an original theory of criticism and historiography for the cinema. The book is also an act of mourning; for a lost past of the cinema, for a longstanding critical tradition and for film ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Series
The Palgrave Lacan Series
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319309415
SKU
V9783319309415
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About Ben Tyrer
Ben Tyrer teaches Film Studies at King's College London, UK. His research interests include film theory, film-philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is co-editor of the collection, Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable: from Culture to the Clinic (Routledge, 2016), and has published work in Studies in French Cinema and Film-Philosophy, as well as several edited collections on psychoanalysis, culture and society. He ... Read more
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