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Sexual difference in European cinema

the curse of enjoyment

Fabio Vighi

Abstract

What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.

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Sublime objects

the antinomies of masculine sexuality from Fellini to Truffaut

Fabio Vighi

pp.17-56

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_2
Ethics of drive

beauty and its enjoyment from Rohmer to Pasolini

Fabio Vighi

pp.57-95

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_3
Unbearable freedoms

the real of sexual difference from Rossellini to Fassbinder

Fabio Vighi

pp.96-145

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_4
In the beginning was enjoyment

the emergence of feminine desire in Bergman and Antonioni

Fabio Vighi

pp.149-175

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_5
About nothing, with precision

femininity unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni

Fabio Vighi

pp.176-202

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_6
In film beyond film

the ontological primacy of woman

Fabio Vighi

pp.203-236

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_7

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2009

Pages: 258

DOI: 10.1057/9780230594357

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-36168-7

ISBN (digital): 978-0-230-59435-7

Full citation:

Vighi Fabio (2009) Sexual difference in European cinema: the curse of enjoyment. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.