Womb Fantasies: Subjective Architectures in Postmodern Literature, Cinema, and Art

Index

125 Adams, Alice: “Framing the Fetal Portrait ,” 99 Adorno, Theodor W., 38, 60 agoraphobia, xii, 13, 17 Algerian War, 12 Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (Jahrestage) (Johnson), 57–74, 93 Antelme, Robert, 11 architecture: and isolation, 6–7; linked to human body, 102, 103; modernist, 4; postmodern, 102; subjective, 16, 106 “Architecture and Sexuality” (Lico), 77 Architecture/Mouvement/Continuité (journal), 46 Arendt, Hannah, 57, 74 arms race. See nuclear arms race Asch, Stuart S., xiii, 69–71 Auschwitz: effect of, on non-Jewish German writers, 59–60; in montage sequence, 78 avant-garde movement, 3–4, 34, 58, 80, 98; and taboos, xi Baby Makes Three (film), 84 Bacon, Francis, 102 Baker, Gary, 61 “baptism by fire,” 111n12 Bastian, Aeneas, 101, 103 Bastian, Heiner, 102 Beattie, Hilary J., 111n16 Belmondo, Jean-Paul, 80, 84 Bergman, Ingrid, 23 Berlin Wall, fall of, 104 Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 14 Bhabha, Homi, 32–34 The Blind Director (film), xii, 37–38, 46–54 blurring of boundaries, 31, 59, 66; between victims and perpetrators, 11, 32; memory and, xiii, 61–64, 67, 72, 73; spatial, 32 Bodies: The Exhibition (international show), 113n4 Bogart, Humphrey, 23 bomb/fallout shelters, 3, 6–7 The Book of Mary (Miéville), 88 Bordwell, David, 109n2 Breathless (film), xiii, 77, 79–83, 86–87, 89, 93 Brecht, Bertolt, 48, 109n2 Brody, Richard, 85, 89, 90 Brotherton, Peter, 107n4 Brown, Royal, 14, 108n19 Buddhist immolation, 71. See also suicide Callahan, Vicki, 88, 89 camera obscura, 94; “dark chamber,” 103 Caputi, Mary, 7 Caruth, Cathy, 14 castration anxiety, 33, 92–93 Catholic Church, 79, 88 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (documentary ), xiv, 105 Index 126 Index Chalonge, Florence de, 34 Chasseguet-Smirgel, Janine, 71 Chauvet Cave (France), xiv Chester, Suzanne, 29 chronos, concept of, 47; difference between kairos and, 37 cinema. See films and filmmaking claustrophobia, xii, 17, 81 Cold War, 3, 5–6; end of, 104 colonialism, 11–12, 25–27; and anticolonialism , 32; colonial “identity,” 33; colonial society, 29; European feelings about, 8, 24, 28, (distancing from) 80; justification of, 33; postcolonial theory, 13, 29–30, 32–33; and “reality,” 31; traumatic experiences of, 34 Communism: anti-Communist propaganda , 7 “Cooperative Auteur Cinema” (Hansen ), 45 Craig, Siobhan, 20 creativity, 58, 94; avant-garde and, 3; loss of, xiii; male impotence in, 29, 57, 75; mother figure representing, 75 Cro-Magnon culture, xiv A Cultural History of Pregnancy (Hanson ), 97 cuts, cinematic. See films and filmmaking “dark chamber.” See camera obscura “dark hole.” See trauma Darwin, Charles, and Darwinian thought, 101 da Vinci, Leonardo, 99, 102 Day, Doris, 84 death: birth close to, 101, 104–5; death drive, Freud’s theory of, 14; metaphysical understanding of, 101; womb/fertility linked with, 3–4, 11, 13. See also genocide Defense Department, U.S., 5 Degas, Edgar, 103; Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, xii, xiv, 98–103 Deleuze, Gilles, 18 de Mont, Elie, 99 The Devil’s Blind Spot (Kluge), 47, 48 Dining Womb (Lum recycled structure), 113n6 Dixon, Wheeler Winston, 80, 88 Draper, Ellen, 112n9 Druick, Douglas, 99, 100 Duck and Cover (film), and “duck-andcover ” procedure, 5–6 Dunker, Axel, 68–69 Duras, Marguerite, xiv, 35, 41, 50, 54, 94, 104, 112n5; colonialism experienced by, 11–13; and traumatic memory, 45; womb fantasies of, 37, 74 works: Her Venetian Name in the Desert of Calcutta, 24; “India Cycle,” 24; India Song, 24, 31, (film version) 30, 34; The Lover, 12, 30, 31; The Man Sitting in the Corridor, 12; The Ravishing of Lol Stein, 15, 24, 34; The Vice-Consul, xii, 11–12, 24–34, 41, 50, 57, 93. See also Hiroshima mon amour (film) Easter bunny, 44 Edelman, Lee: No Future, 104 Edson, Laurie, 29 ego psychology, 7 Elben, Christian, 67 Elsaesser, Thomas, 53 emptiness, 20, 22–24, 46; film based on, 39; notion of, in pregnancy, 94 The End (Nossack), 58 Engler, Wolfgang, 74 “Episode in the Age of Enlightenment” (Kluge), 48 Erotics of Passage (Williams), 32 evolution, 91; Darwinian thought, 101 “fade and dissolve” technique, 62–63. See also films and filmmaking “The Failed Divorce” (Kluge), 47, 48 fallout shelters. See bomb/fallout shelters Fanon, Franz: The Wretched of the Earth, 109n27 Fassbinder, Rainer-Werner, 38, 47 father: de-emphasized, 60; father-daughter story, 90; as symbol, 71 Faulkner, William, 111n8 Faust (Goethe), 99 feminist viewpoint, 65, 113n5; film theory, xiii; French, xi; Godard’s cinema and, 78, 88 Index 127 Ferenczi, Sandor, 109n25...