The Difficulty of Difference : Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory.

This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Rodowick, D. N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013
Series:Routledge library editions. Cinema.
Subjects:
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Description
Summary:This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud's thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud's writing, constructed in film.
Physical Description:1 online resource (321 pages)
ISBN:9781317928546
1317928547
1306375614
9781306375610
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.