The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 256
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Bargain and Discounted Titles - Catalogue No : 94841
- ISBN 13 : 9781912691272
- ISBN 10 : 9781912691
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the author
Introduction
Part I: The Nature of Desire in a Trio of Science Fiction Thrillers
CHAPTER ONE
The Object of Desire: The Thing from Another World
CHAPTER TWO
The sleep of desire: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
CHAPTER THREE
Female sexuality in Alien
Part II: Portraits of Addiction in Hollywood Melodrama
CHAPTER FOUR
Psychoanalytic Observations on the Depiction of Greed in Two Hollywood Movies: The Maltese Falcon and Wall Street
CHAPTER FIVE
The Psychic Under-pinning of Alcoholism: The Lost Weekend, The Days of Wine and Roses, and Leaving Las Vegas
Part III: Perverse Desire in Mainstream Cinema
CHAPTER SIX
The S and M Cure in Secretary
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sexual Undertow in Little Children
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Camera as Psychotic Object in Peeping Tom
References
Index