K. Gorton

Theorizing Desire (eBook, PDF)

From Freud to Feminism to Film

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and film, it considers ways in which the concept is theorized and presented on screen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230582248
• Artikelnr.: 45965383

Autorenporträt

KRISTYN GORTON is Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film& Television at York University, UK. She is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Portrayal of Desire in Twentieth-Century Fiction: A Feminist Critique (2007) and has published articles in Studies in European Cinema, Feminist Theory and The Journal of British Cinema and Television.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Theorising Desire Hysterical Desire Gaze and Melodrama Shame and Desire Desire and Melancholia Conclusion: Desire and Embodiment Bibliography Notes Index