Psychoanalysis and Film [Paperback]

This volume contains a collection of outstanding examples of psychoanalytic film criticism, applying different theoretical orientations, drawn from the first four years of the film review section in the International Journal of Psychoanalysisduring author's tenure as film review editor.Introduction -- The End of Time: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Ingmar Bergmans Wild Strawberries -- Hitchcocks Vertigo: The Collapse of a Rescue Fantasy -- Neil Jordans 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 Penns Night Moves: A Film that Interprets Us -- Lone Star: Signs, Borders and Thresholds -- Letters, Words and Metaphors: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Michael Radfords Il Postino -- Truffaut and the Failure of Introjection -- I Have Not Spoken: Silence in The Piano -- Over-Exposure: Terry Zwigoffs Crumb -- Narrating Desire and Desiring Narration: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The English Patient -- The Remains of the Day -- Deconstructing Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwoods 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 Ryans Surplus Repression -- M (1931) -- Remembering and Repeating in Eves Bayou -- Watching Voyeurs: Michael Powells Peeping Tom (1960) -- Egoyans Exotica: Where does the Real Horror Reside? -- The Real Thing? Some Thoughts on Boys Dont Cry -- Fifteen Minutes of Fame Revisited: Being John Malkovich -- The Sixth Sense