In this Book
- Cinema of Confinement
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Diaeresis
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summary
In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess.
Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780810139237
Related ISBN(s)
9780810139213, 9780810139220
MARC Record
OCLC
1080201899
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-05
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND