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Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema von Columbia University Press
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Movies, Bronfen suggests, are enactments of the Freudian household romance, particularly "nostalgia for an untainted feel of belonging," and this, she says, is most obvious in movies that deal explicitly with ideas of dwelling. She takes eight movies, heavy on thrillers but additionally encompassing fable, melodrama and westerns, and provides each and every an particularly close studying with a psychoanalytic spin. The twister in The Wizard of Oz, for example, characterizes "a hallucinatory materialization of [Dorothy's] desire for a violent separation from the house." The prognosis additionally makes extensive use of Freud's thought of the Mischling, or "mixed-race" particular person. Bronfen (The Knotted Subject) applies this trope literally to a light-skinned African-American who passes for white in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, but then enlarges it to include the white girl raised by using Indians in John Ford's The Searchers and even Bruce Wayne and hellos costumed Batman alter ego. Bronfen's interpretations of the films will also be convincing, however occasional trys to use her theories behind the digital camera are less persuasive. This is not for the informal fan; Bronfen's language is extremely educational, making a againground in psychoanalytic theory extremely helpful if no longer essential. Readers willing to supply their brains a exercise, although, will in finding this stimulating studying. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.. Lire la suite Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema

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