Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian NeorealismUniversity of Texas Press, 22/07/2010 - 204 من الصفحات The "new" realism of Italian cinema after World War II represented and in many ways attempted to contain the turmoil of a society struggling to rid itself of Fascism while fighting off the threat of radical egalitarianism at the same time. In this boldly revisionist book, Vincent F. Rocchio combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology and Marxist critical theory to examine the previously neglected relationship between Neorealist films and the historical spectators they address. Rocchio builds his analysis around case studies of the films Rome: Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La Terra Trema, Bitter Rice, and Senso. Through the lens of psychoanalysis, he challenges the traditional understanding of Neorealism as a progressive cinema and instead reveals the anxieties it encodes: a society in political turmoil, an economic system in collapse, and a national cinema in ruins; while war, occupation, collaboration, and retaliation remain a part of everyday life. These case studies demonstrate how Lacanian psychoanalysis can play a key role in analyzing the structure of cinematic discourse and its strategies of containment. As one of the first books outside of feminist film theory to bring the ideas of Lacan to theories of cinema, this book offers innovative methods that reinvigorate film analysis. Clear and detailed insights into both Italian culture and the films under investigation will make this engaging reading for anyone interested in film and cultural studies. |
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... The je thus operates to displace and temper the drives of the moi through the abstracting and temporalizing properties of language. As Lacan argues: "The word doesn't answer to the spatial distinctiveness of 16 Cinema of Anxiety.
... displacements in the service of recognition and repression. His concept of the human subject, split between conscious and unconscious, and divided between the moi and the je, makes language a dynamic field where repression and the drive ...
... displace it "onto relations which are more properly intra-textual,"34 indicates that the process of Symbolic identification is a significant textual operation within narrative film. This is what leads Thomas Elsaesser to conclude that ...
... displaced by the je. The Lacanian critical methods developed here are thus organized around analyzing the structure of this dialectical relationship as it functions within discourse. As Lacan argues: "It is therefore always in the ...
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Bicycle Thieves IDENTIFICATION FOCALIZATION AND RESTORATION | 53 |
La terra trema SUBVERTING AND STRUCTURING MEANING | 79 |
Bitter Rice THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED DIVA | 105 |
Senso DEGENERATE MELODRAMA? | 127 |
Psychoanalysis Cinematic Representation and Cultural Studies | 147 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 175 |
Index | 181 |