Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment
What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.
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Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment
What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.
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Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment

Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment

by F. Vighi
Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment

Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment

by F. Vighi

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Overview

What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349361687
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/29/2009
Edition description: 1st ed. 2009
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

FABIO VIGHI teaches Italian and European Cinema at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001), Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2005), Žižek Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner) and Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (2007, edited with Heiko Feldner).

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: THE COMFORT OF FANTASIES Sublime Objects: The Antinomies of Masculine Sexuality from Fellini to Truffaut Ethics of Drive: On Beauty and its Enjoyment from Rohmer to Pasolini Unbearable Freedoms: The Real of Sexual Difference from Rossellini to Fassbinder PART II: VARIATIONS ON FEMININE ENJOYMENT In the Beginning was Enjoyment: The Emergence of Feminine Desire in Bergman and Antonioni About Nothing, with Precision: Femininity Unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni In Film Beyond Film: On the Ontological Primacy of Woman Conclusion Bibliography Index
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