Madness and Cinema: Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and Culture by Patrick Fuery, ISBN-13: 978-0333948262

Madness and Cinema: Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and Culture by Patrick Fuery, ISBN-13: 978-0333948262

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• Publisher: ‎ Red Globe Press; 2003rd edition (September 26, 2003)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎177 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0333948262
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0333948262

Madness and Cinema offers a radical approach to the issue of what happens when we watch films. By exploring cinema’s relationship to meaning and proposing new ways to read cinema through psychoanalysis, this book develops the idea that the spectator engages in what has previously been described as an act of madness. By considering some of the key concepts from Freud and Lacan, as well as ideas from Derrida and Foucault, we are shown the common features that cinema and madness share. The film spectator is shown as the psychotic, neurotic and hysteric, as the book examines the ways in which the foundations of culture and meaning are challenged when we become the spectator of a film.

Table of Contents:

– Madness and Cinematisation

– Representing the Impossible

– The Neurotic Spectator Who Eroticises

– The Psychotic Spectator Who Transgresses

– The Hysterical Spectator Against the Good

– The Limits of Knowledge

– Bibliography

Patrick Fuery is Professor at Chapman University, USA. His research interests include psychoanalysis, semiotics, literary and cultural theory, gender studies, film and visual studies, medicine and the arts. Fuery is the author of 8 books, including Madness and Cinema (2004), New Developments in Film Theory (2000), and The Theory of Absence (1995).

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