The discourse of psychoanalytic film theory

This study reads contemporary psychoanalytic film theory as a discourse which implies specific stylistic practices in its investigation of three areas: the cinema (as apparatus), the film (as text) and film theory itself (as discourse). The study proceeds by examining the respective staging of three basic psychoanalytic concepts, or figures, in the work of psychoanalytic film theory: identification, repetition, and transference. The shift in film theory from a semiological project conceived as a science to an active figuration of the theorist's desire demonstrates not only a conceptual readjustment in film studies but more fundamentally an attempt to dramatize that shift through the practice of writing.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Creekmur, Corey Knox

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nelson, Cary
• Penley, C.

• Psychology, General
• Mass Communications
• Cinema

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Creekmur, Corey Knox

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9124401
(UMI)AAI9124401

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19541