Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film

Traumatic Encounters in Italian FilmThis book addresses the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and film, bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema. The author explores the relationship between the Real, the under represented Lacanian category, and some of the most widely celebrated and lesser known Italian films of the post war period.

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a true pioneer in the growing field

as Danny Butt argues in this book

and social constructions of reality

the authors discuss the social

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Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century

revise and reassure

Australian Film Theory and Criticism

this book goes further by relating theatre history to the development of the European Community as a whole