Cinema of Confinement

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8101-3921-3
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 218 g

Reihe: Diaeresis

In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess. 

Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connelly, Thomas J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas J. Connelly is a visiting assistant professor in the Media Studies Department at Pomona College.