Description: Title: Moving Images: Psychoanalytic reflections on film Author: Sabbadini, Andrea Publisher: Routledge Binding: Paperback Pages: 140 Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d Product Weight: 0.5 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780415736121 The experience of watching films - entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be - can be enriched by the opportunity to reflect upon them from unconventional perspectives.Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film: Moving Images offers its readers in an accessible language one such viewpoint, informed by Andrea Sabbadini's psychoanalytic insights and therapeutic experience. Using a psychoanalytic interpretative approach, some twenty-five important feature films are discussed as the artistic vehicles of new, unsuspected meanings. The first chapter looks at films which represent psychoanalytic work itself, having therapists and their patients as their main characters. The remaining five chapters cover movies on themes of central concern to analytic theorists and clinicians, such as childhood and adolescent development, and varieties of intimate relationships among adults. The latter include romantic love and its disturbing association to death fantasies; eroticism and prostitution; and voyeuristic desire - a significant phenomenon in this context given its parallels with the activity of watching films. Andrea Sabbadini's psychoanalytic approach, which explores the part played by unconscious factors in shaping the personality and behaviour of film characters, is used to interpret their internal world and the emotional conflicts engendered by the vicissitudes they live through. The book is completed by a filmography and biographical notes on film directors. Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film presents the relationship between cinema and psychoanalysis as a complex one. These two most different of cultural phenomena are shown to share a wish on the part of their practitioners to uncover profound truths about the human condition, and to provide a language with which to describe them. Going beyond futile 'psycho-historical' attempts to analyse filmmakers through their products, or a superficial application of psychoanalytic concepts to film, Sabbadini shows how both cinema and psychoanalysis can benefit from a meaningful interdisciplinary dialogue between them. The book will be of special interest to practicing psychoanalysts and students, scholars and historians of film studies. Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Moving Images: Psychoanalytic reflections on film
Number of Pages: 140 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Moving Images : Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Film / General, Movements / Psychoanalysis, Media Studies, Mental Health
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Andrea Sabbadini
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, Psychology
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'beyond the Couch' Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
