Table of Contents

Introduction — The End of Time: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries — Hitchcock’s Vertigo: The Collapse of a Rescue Fantasy — Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game — Hidden in the Imagery: An Unconscious Scene in The Conformist — ‘Ah Doctor, is there Nothin’ I Can Take?’: A Review of Reservoir Dogs — Arthur Penn’s Night Moves: A Film that Interprets Us — Lone Star: Signs, Borders and Thresholds — Letters, Words and Metaphors: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Michael Radford’s Il Postino — Truffaut and the Failure of Introjection — I Have Not Spoken: Silence in The Piano — Over-Exposure: Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb — Narrating Desire and Desiring Narration: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The English Patient — The Remains of the Day — Deconstructing Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwood’s Undoing of the Hollywood Myth of Screen Masculinity in Play ‘Misty’ For Me — The Thing from Inner Space: Titanic and Deep Impact — Chinatown — Saving Private Ryan’s Surplus Repression — M (1931) — Remembering and Repeating in Eve’s Bayou — Watching Voyeurs: Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) — Egoyan’s Exotica: Where does the Real Horror Reside? — The Real Thing? Some Thoughts on Boys Don’t Cry — Fifteen Minutes of Fame Revisited: Being John Malkovich — The Sixth Sense