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Sexual difference in European cinema
the curse of enjoyment
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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the antinomies of masculine sexuality from Fellini to Truffaut
pp.17-56
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_2beauty and its enjoyment from Rohmer to Pasolini
pp.57-95
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_3the real of sexual difference from Rossellini to Fassbinder
pp.96-145
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_4the emergence of feminine desire in Bergman and Antonioni
pp.149-175
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_5femininity unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni
pp.176-202
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_6the ontological primacy of woman
pp.203-236
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594357_7Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2009
Pages: 258
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.