Film, Lacan and the subject of religion : a psychoanalytic approach to religious film analysis /: a psychoanalytic approach to religious film analysis. ([2011?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steve Nolan.
• Other Names: Nolan, Steve
• Contents: Introduction -- An overview -- With thanks -- Part one. Current approaches to religious film analysis -- Introduction to Part one -- 1 Phenomenological interpretations : film as sacrament -- André Bazin : the parameters of cinematic Protestantism -- Paul Schrader : 'Protestant cinematic sacramentalism' -- Other cinematic sacramentalists : Cunneen, Bird and Fraser -- Critique of cinematic style as sacarment -- Two other phenomenological interpretations : Martin and Thompson -- Literary interpretations : film as visual story -- The auteur in theological film criticism : Kreitzer -- The missed point of the emerging orthodoxy : Deacy -- Anthropological interpretations : film as religion -- Lyden : 'film itself functions as a religion' -- Marsh : 'the religion-like function of film' -- Part two. Representation in liturgy and film -- Introduction to Part two -- Liturgical representation : 'others', narratives and ideological 'realities' -- The liturgical 'other' : priestly representation -- Sacramental narrative of the cross -- Participation in the ideological 'reality' of episcopal/ecclesial authority -- Cinematic representation : 'others', Narratives and ideological 'realities' -- The cinematic 'other' : the film star/hero -- 'Ordinary guy/extraordinary situation' : the overcoming-the-other narrative -- Soviet satellites -- Islamist militants -- Participation in the ideological 'reality' of Hollywood realism -- The siege (1998). Part three. What can film theory offer liturgy? -- Introduction to Part three -- Cinematic identification : suture and narrative space -- Cinematic perspective and narrative space -- Jean-Pierre Oudart and Stephen Heath : suturing the subject in cinematic discourse -- Slavoj Žižek : when suture fails -- Critique of the subject sutured in cinematic discourse -- Suturing suture : joining the theory together -- Cinematic impression of reality as unconscious effect -- Symbolic reality, imaginary reality and the real of the subject's truth -- Imagos and the representational nature of the complex -- Anamnesis : the subject's participation in the impression of reality -- Mapping imaginary reality to cinema's impression of reality -- Cinematic discourse and Lacan's linguistic theory of dreams -- The (overdetermined) 'thing' : 'dumb reality' and (forbidden) objet petit a -- Lacan's linguistic theory of dreams -- The signifier as representative not significant -- The repeated real, the real as missed encounter -- Mapping unconscious desire to cinematic discourse -- Suturing identity with a cinematic other, suturing subjectivity -- Identification with represented desire : a 'genetic theory of the ego' -- Libidinal investment, narcissistic identification : 'dialectic of identification' -- The confusion of identity : jealousy, paranoiac knowledge and transitivism -- Procuring subjectivity : circulating the 'rim' and superimposing the lack -- Procuring subjectivity : the double operation of the 'rim' -- Representation and the fading of the subject -- Procuring subjectivity : the superimposition of the two lacks -- Modes of subject identification : the ideal-I and the ego-ideal -- Symmetrical identifications : imaginary projection and symbolic introjection -- Mapping suture to identification with a cinematic other -- Suturing religious identity in the sacramental narrative -- Identification with the priest as a liturgical representation -- Constructing the priest as a liturgical representation -- Priestly representation (i) : a fiction sustained by erotic attraction -- The mission (1986) -- Priestly representation (ii) : a fiction sustained by negation/disavowal -- Father John McNeill -- The worshipper's solipsistic identification with priestly representation -- Joining the narrative and participating in its 'reality' -- Signifying for : the reinscription of desire into the sacramental narrative -- The exorcist (1973) -- On the waterfront (1954) -- The fugitive (1947) -- The worshipper's participation as a subject of episcopal/ecclesial 'reality' -- By way of analysis -- Batman begins (Christopher Nolan) -- Bewitched (Nora Ephron) -- Charlie and the chocolate factory (Tim Burton) -- Conclusion : a third task -- moving beyond the 'so what!'.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 205.65; Motion pictures -- Religious aspects; Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects; Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects; Religion in motion pictures; RELIGION -- Christianity -- General; RELIGION -- Ethics; Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects; Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects; Motion pictures -- Religious aspects; Religion in motion pictures; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441166876; 1441166874
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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