Out of the past: Lacan and film noir
Authored Book
Tyrer, B. 2016. Out of the past: Lacan and film noir. Cham Palgrave Macmillan.
Type | Authored Book |
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Title | Out of the past: Lacan and film noir |
Authors | Tyrer, B. |
Abstract | Out of the Past presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just beginning. This work is, however, an act of mourning. For a lost past of the cinema. For a longstanding critical tradition. For film noir. It is about the loss of an idea, and how we came to have it in the first place. It asks how we can talk about film noir when, in fact, film noir doesn’t exist. The answer starts with Lacan and a refusal to relinquish psychoanalysis. Lacanian theories of retroactivity and ontology can be read together with film history, genre and narrative to show the ways in which theory and history, past and present, cinema and psychoanalysis are fundamentally knotted together. |
Keywords | Film Studies; psychoanalysis; Double Indemnity; The Maltese Falcon; Film Theory; Slavoj Zizek; Hollywood; John Huston |
Sustainable Development Goals | 10 Reduced inequalities |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Series | The Palgrave Lacan Series |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9783319309415 |
Paperback | 9783319809236 |
Electronic | 9783319309422 |
ISSN | 2946-4196 |
Electronic | 2946-420X |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publication | Cham |
Publication dates | |
09 Aug 2016 | |
Online | 17 Aug 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 12 Jun 2023 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30942-2 |
Related Output | |
Has part | Introduction: into the past/out of the past |
Has part | Film noir as point de capiton: retroactive temporality and symbolic structure |
Has part | First interlude: a contingent irruption |
Has part | Film noir doesn’t exist: impossibility, definition and the point of failure |
Has part | The boundaries and meaning of noir: suture, metaphor and the historical imaginary |
Has part | Second interlude: a knotting (SRI) |
Has part | The idea of noir: fiction, signifier, genre |
Has part | The moment of concluding |
Language | English |
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