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Screen Memories
Harvey Roy Greenberg
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Description for Screen Memories
Paperback. In a candid and entertaining style, Greenberg delves into the psychological aspects of film characters in mainstream movies ranging from Casablanca to Working Girl. Num Pages: 277 pages, 13 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Screen Memories delves into the psychological features of mainstream movies from Casablanca to Working Girl. While most psychoanalytic film criticism is highly theoretical, Dr. Greenberg, a practicing clinician, writes in an entertaining, informative style that will appeal to fans and scholars alike. Greenberg begins with an overview of the history and methods of psychoanalytic film criticism. He then focuses upon character, motivation, and conflict in famous examples of detective, war, science-fiction, horror, and cult cinema. He also addresses the enduring emotional appeal of these genres to spectators from one generation to the next. Greenberg then fuses psychoanalysis and ... Read more
Screen Memories delves into the psychological features of mainstream movies from Casablanca to Working Girl. While most psychoanalytic film criticism is highly theoretical, Dr. Greenberg, a practicing clinician, writes in an entertaining, informative style that will appeal to fans and scholars alike. Greenberg begins with an overview of the history and methods of psychoanalytic film criticism. He then focuses upon character, motivation, and conflict in famous examples of detective, war, science-fiction, horror, and cult cinema. He also addresses the enduring emotional appeal of these genres to spectators from one generation to the next. Greenberg then fuses psychoanalysis and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231072878
SKU
V9780231072878
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About Harvey Roy Greenberg
Harvey Roy Greenberg, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he teaches adolescent psychiatry and medical humanities.
Reviews for Screen Memories
Not only does it clear away the fog from much deliberately opaque writing on the subject, but, like the rest of this playfully deep book look at the movies, it's fun to read. Washington Post Book World