Cinema, technologies of visibility, and the reanimation of desire

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Title Context: Cinema, technologies of visibility, and the reanimation of desire
Primary Contributor: Vincent J. Hausmann
System ISBN Index: 9780230110922
Language Presentation: English (US Standard)
Page Manifest Extent: Standard Printing Edition Count pages

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Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty, and The Elephant Man, Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language. Drawing on expansive histories of cinema - including its relation to scientific/medical visual culture's tracking of the human/animal body, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and sexuality studies, the book demonstrates that conceptions of psychic (re)animation remain interwoven with notions of cinematic motion, and emerge, embedded, in narratives of relations among analog and digital arts/technologies.