This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just beginning. The chapters engage with Lacanian psychoanalysis to perform a meta-critical analysis of the writing on noir in the last seven decades and to present an original theory of criticism and historiography for the cinema. The book is also an act of mourning; for a lost past of the cinema, for a longstanding critical tradition and for film noir. It asks how we can talk about film noir when, in fact, film noir doesn't exist. The answer starts with Lacan and a refusal to relinquish psychoanalysis. Lacanian theories of retroactivity and ontology can be read together with film history, genre and narrative to show the ways in which theory and history, past and present, cinema and psychoanalysis are fundamentally knotted together. Tyrer also explores Lacan through particular noir films, such as Double Indemnity andThe Maltese Falcon - and demonstrates the possibilities for a Lacanian Film Studies (as one that engages fully with Lacan's entire body of work) that has hitherto not been realised.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer International Publishing Ag
ISBN-13
9783319309415
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223531752
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Personality Psychology
Author
Ben Tyrer
Publication Name
Out of the Past: Lacan and Film Noir
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
291 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
210mm
Item Width
148mm
Item Weight
4955g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ben Tyrer
Series Title
The Palgrave Lacan Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
Switzerland
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