Out of the Past Lacan and Film Noir /

• Main Author: Tyrer, Ben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Motion pictures > History.; Motion pictures.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Film Theory.; Film History.

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 La...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Into the Past/Out of the Past
• PART I: SYMBOLIC
• Chapter 1. Film Noir as Point de Capiton: Retroactive Temporality and Symbolic Structure
• PART II: REAL
• Chapter 2. Film Noir Doesn't Exist: Impossibility, Definition and the Point of Failure
• PART III: IMAGINARY
• Chapter 3. The Boundaries and Meaning of Noir: Suture, Metaphor and the Historical Imaginary
• PART IV: BORROMEAN KNOT
• Chapter 4. The Idea of Noir: Fiction, Signifier, Genre. .