Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire

Exploring The Dead/alive Figure In Such Films As The Ring, American Beauty, And The Elephant Man, Vincent Hausmann Charts The Spectacular Reduction Of Psychic Life And Assesses Calls For Shoring Up Psychic/social Spaces That Transfer Bodily Drives To Language. Drawing On Expansive Histories Of Cinema - Including Its Relation To Scientific/medical Visual Culture's Tracking Of The Human/animal Body, Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, And Sexuality Studies, The Book Demonstrates That Conceptions Of Psychic (re)animation Remain Interwoven With Notions Of Cinematic Motion, And Emerge, Embedded, In Narratives Of Relations Among Analog And Digital Arts/technologies. Introduction : Cinema, Technologies Of Visibility, And The Reanimation Of Desire -- Envisioning The (w)hole World Behind Things In Sam Mendes's American Beauty -- Burning Transmission : Stilling Psychic Space In Gore Verbinski's The Ring -- Turning Into Another Thing : David Lynch's The Elephant Man -- Inscribing The Dream Of Otherness At The End Of The World -- Conclusion : Up With Dead People? Vincent J. Hausmann. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 1 Introduction: Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire......Page 14 2 Envisioning the (W)hole World “Behind Things” in Sam Mendes’s American Beauty......Page 26 3 Burning Transmission: Stilling Psychic Space in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring......Page 62 4 “Turning into Another Thing” in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man......Page 118 5 Inscribing the Dream of Otherness in Wim Wenders’s Until the End of the World......Page 170 6 Conclusion: Up with Dead People?......Page 212 Notes......Page 218 Selected Bibliography......Page 232 Index......Page 236